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  • The Four Cardinal Virtues

    Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge

    by Josef Pieper ...
    In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Leisure

    The Basis of Culture

    by Josef Pieper ...
    One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act.Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas

    A Breviary of Philosophy from the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas

    by Josef Pieper ...
    Translated by Drostan MacLaren ...
    Josef Pieper has attached no commentary to the texts brought together in this breviary of the philosophy of St. Thomas, preferring that the reader should encounter them, "on his own". His work has been one of selection, in which he has sought to assemble such passages as will provide an introduction to the form and design of the whole Thomistic system. Yet he has so ordered his texts as to impress ... Read more

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  • Exercises in the Elements

    Essays, Speeches, Notes

    by Josef Pieper ...
    This title, which at first sight seems curious, shows Pieper’s philosophical work as rooted in the basics. He takes his inspiration from Plato – and his Socrates – and Thomas Aquinas. With them, he is interested in philosophy as pure theory, the theoretical being precisely the non-practical. The philosophizer wants to know what all existence is fundamentally about, what “reality” “really” means. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Josef Pieper

    An Anthology

    by Josef Pieper ...
    Foreward by Hans Urs von BalthasarNear the end of a long career as one of the most widely read popular Thomistic philosophers of the twentieth century, Josef Pieper has himself compiled an anthology from all his works. He has selected the best and most representative passages and arranged them in an order that gives sense to the whole and aids in the understanding of each excerpt.Pieper's ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • In Tune With The World

    by Josef Pieper ...
    In this stimulating and still-timely study, Josef Pieper takes up a theme of paramount importance to his thinking – that festivals belong by rights among the great topics of philosophical discussion. As he develops his theory of festivity, the modern age comes under close and painful scrutiny. It is obvious that we no longer know what festivity is, namely, the celebration of existence under ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Faith, Hope, Love

    by Josef Pieper ...
    This volume, three separate books in one edition, is a collection of Josef Pieper's famous treatises on the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love. Each of these treatises was originally published as a separate work over a period of thirty-seven years, and here they are brought together in English for the first time.The first of the three that he wrote, On Hope, was written in 1934 in ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Happiness and Contemplation

    by Josef Pieper ...
    “The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation.” In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom in order to throw light on present-day reality and present-day psychological problems. What, in fact, does one pursue in pursuing happiness? What, in the consensus of the wisdom of the early Greeks, of Plato and Aristotle, of the New ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The End of Time

    A Meditation on the Philosophy of History

    by Josef Pieper ...
    This is a work of rare prophetic brilliance by Josef Pieper, one of this century's most profound and lucid expositors of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. This book was written to throw light on an ancient question that has vexed and tormented many. What is the nature of ""The End"" toward which, even now, the world and men are moving? No writer of our time is better equipped to answer that ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • Silence Of St Thomas

    by Josef Pieper ...
    A single theme runs through the three essays on St. Thomas gather in this book. It is the theme of mystery or, more exactly, the response of the searching human intellect to the fact of mystery. Both the fact and the response are suggested in a short biography of St. Thomas that forms the first essay and are then sketched out in detail by a presentation of the “negative element” in his philosophy. ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Traditional Truth, Poetry, Sacrament

    For My Mother, on Her 70th Birthday

    by Josef Pieper ...
    Translated by Dan Farrelly ...
    Pieper collects his contributions to radio programs and to a number of journals and periodicals. The book also includes a selection of notes and comments. The contributions fall into two main groups: the period which encompasses the immediate pre-war period as well as the war period itself, and the post-war period up to 1953.The reader becomes witness, first, to Pieper’s problems with the National ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Guide to Thomas Aquinas

    by Josef Pieper ...
    One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings.Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with ... Read more

    $13.99 USD