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The popular Thomistic philosopher and writer Josef Pieper focuses on the thesis of Plato, which at first sight appears strange and unrealistic, that those experiences that advance human life to its true fullness are bestowed on us only during a "god-given" state of being-beside-oneself.Sku: 9780898705577
Divine Madness: Plato’s Case Against Secular Humanism
By: Josef Pieper$15.50 -
Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical approach necessary for life, integration, healing, and thriving in artistry.Sku: 9781666769685
Doorway to Artistry
By: Esther Lightcap Meek$44.50 -
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC) spoke with great insight into every field of learning known to the ancient world. This included ethics and the arts, two topics of keen interest to ancient Greeks. This volume contains two of his most significant works on these subjects.Sku: 9781950271115
Ethics and Poetics
By: Aristotle$26.50 -
Evaluating Books teaches principles of economics and government in bite-sized nuggets, and gives indicators for spotting the philosophical slant of most writers and media commentators on the subjects of law, history, economics and literature.Sku: 9780942617535
Evaluating Books: What Would Thomas Jefferson Think About This? (Second Edition)
By: Richard J. Maybury$14.95 -
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.Sku: 9780898706239
Faith Hope Love
By: Josef Pieper$30.50 -
In these elegant and engaging essays, the internationally acclaimed Thomist, Josef Pieper, defines and defends philosophy as the search for and love of wisdom.Sku: 9781586170875
For Love of Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Philosophy
By: Josef Pieper$41.50 -
Taking the form of a dialogue between Socrates, Gorgias, Polus and Callicles, Gorgias debates perennial questions about the nature of government and those who aspire to public office. Are high moral standards essential or should we give our preference to the pragmatist who gets things done or negotiates successfully? Should individuals be motivated by a desire for personal power and prestige, or genuine concern for the moral betterment of the citizens? These questions go to the heart of Athenian democratic principles and are more relevant than ever in today's political climate.1 GradeSku: 9780140449044
Gorgias
By: Plato$13.50 -
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.Sku: 9780898703191
Guide to Thomas Aquinas
By: Josef Pieper$26.50 -
This book is an engagement between a great modern philosopher defending classical philosophy against an army of challengers to the very notion of philosophy as classically conceived.Sku: 9780898703979
In Defense of Philosophy: Classical Wisdom Stands Up to Modern Challenges
By: Josef Pieper$20.95 -
This book is neither a deriding of the worldly "profane" nor a splitting up of reality into a supposedly unholy realm over against one which alone is consecrated to God.Sku: 9780898703016
In Search of the Sacred: Contributions to An Answer
By: Josef Pieper$22.50 -
Many of us tend to live as though Jesus represents the "spiritual part" of our lives. We don't clearly see how he relates to the rest of our experiences, desires, and habits. How can Jesus, the Bible, and Christianity become more than a compartmentalized part of our lives? Highly regarded New Testament scholar and popular teacher Jonathan Pennington argues that we need to recover the lost biblical image of Jesus as the one true philosopher who teaches us how to experience the fullness of our humanity in the kingdom of God. Jesus teaches us what is good, right, and beautiful and offers answers to life's big questions: what it means to be human, how to be happy, how to order our emotions, and how we should conduct our relationships. This book brings Jesus and Christianity into dialogue with the ancient philosophers who asked the same big questions about finding meaningful happiness. It helps us rediscover biblical Christianity as a whole-life philosophy, one that addresses our greatest human questions and helps us live meaningful and flourishing lives.Sku: 9781587434655
Jesus the Great Philosopher
By: Jonathan T. Pennington$25.95 -
Foreword by Hans Urs von Balthasar Near 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.Sku: 9780898702262
Josef Pieper: An Anthology
By: Josef Pieper$33.50 -
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.Sku: 9781586172565
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
By: Josef Pieper$24.95 -
"During the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre"... Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War, Leviathan is an ambitious and highly original work of political philosophy.Sku: 9780141395098
Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes, Edited by Christopher Brooke$19.00 -
Living the Truth includes two other Pieper books: Truth of All Things and Reality and the Good. This volume presents illuminating treatises of Josef Pieper on Thomistic anthropology and on the principles of right human behaviour based on anthropology.Sku: 9780898702613
Living the Truth
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We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives?Sku: 9780143108702
Making Sense of God
By: Timothy Keller$24.00