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New"A fine and thought provoking examination of the relationship between the mind, heart, and moral life of the human person." ~ John Cardinal O'Connor, Archbishop of New YorkSku: 9780898703030
A Brief Reader on the Virtues of the Human Heart
By: Josef Pieper$16.50 -
NewOne of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating the truth and entering more deeply into it, and of the acquisition of wisdom, it is being used to control people and manipulate them to achieve practical ends.Sku: 9780898703627
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
By: Josef Pieper$16.50 -
NewThe 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 -
NewThis 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 -
NewIn 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 -
NewOne 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 -
NewThis 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 -
NewThis 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 -
NewForeword 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 -
NewOne 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 -
NewLiving 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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NewThe popular and highly regarded Pieper speaks of the necessity for human persons to be able to contemplate and appreciate beauty to develop their full humanity.Sku: 9780898703023
Only the Lover Sings: Art and Contemplation
By: Josef Pieper$16.50 -
NewJosef 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.Sku: 9780898708912
The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy
By: Josef Pieper$27.95