Thomas von Aquin (1225¿1274) gilt als der bedeutendste Theologe des Hochmittelalters. Er war ein Mensch, dessen Verstand das Geheimnis von Gott und Welt zu erhellen vermochte und darin von unerschöpflicher Aktualität geblieben ist. Fü...
"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...
In ordinary conversation, including among the "educated", the word "sin" rarely gets mentioned except when one is trying to be coy or facetious. As Thomas Mann once said, "sin" is nowadays "an amusing word used only when...
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...
The popular and highly regarded Josef Pieper speaks of the necessity for human persons to be able to contemplate and appreciate beauty to develop their full humanity. Pieper expresses succinctly that the foundation of the human person in society is leisur...
1 Vorlesungen iiber die Geschichte der Phi!osophie. Erster Band. Hrsg. Joh. Hoffmeister. Leipzig 1940. S.101. ! Confessiones 11, 14. 3 Aufzeichnungen aus den Jahren 1875/79. Gesammelte Werke. Musarion-Ausgabe (Miin chen 1922 ff.), Bd. 9, S. 480. 4...