Leisure: The Basis of Culture. Josef Pieper

Leisure: The Basis of Culture


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Leisure: The Basis of Culture Josef Pieper
Publisher: Ignatius Press



I am delighted that Michael Terheyden appreciated the importance of this brief but masterful study by philosopher, Josef Pieper. So perhaps this week we should also read or reread Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture. Such stillness Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper. It took me about as long to get through those 175 pages as it did to get through 700 of Ancient History. I.- LEISURE THE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN CULTURE: “WE ARE 'UNLEISURELY' IN ORDER TO HAVE LEISURE”-ARISTOTLE-. Study index of Leisure, the Basis of Culture. Leisure is a form of that stillness that is the necessary preparation for accepting reality; only the person who is still can hear, and whoever is not still, cannot hear. This medieval concept was ably articulated in modern form by the Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper in a book with the arresting title Leisure: the Basis of Culture (English translation with introduction by T. You need to read "Leisure the Basis of Culture" by Joseph Pieper. I finally finished, last week, Josef Pieper's Leisure, The Basis of Culture. "What matters in an idea is not its origin but its magnitude Truth alone has a claim, and it has that claim wherever it appears." ~ Sertillanges. All of Doctor Pieper's works are gems of wisdom, but this one is arguably his best. My dear professor at Notre Dame, Joseph Evans, told us that he read the book every year.





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