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The Four Cardinal Virtues
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 …
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
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 …
Tradition as Challenge – Essays and Speeches
Not Yet the Twilight – An Autobiography 1945–1964
Volume 2 of Josef Pieper’s three-part autobiography is here presented for the first time in English translation. The volume represents not just a simple continuation of a seamless …
A Journey to Point Omega – Autobiography from 1964
This volume, the original version of which was published in 1988, brings to a close the autobiographical writings of a modern Christian philosopher who lived through the two World …
In Tune With The World
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 …
Traditional Truth, Poetry, Sacrament – For My Mother, on Her 70th Birthday
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 …
Happiness and Contemplation
"e;The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation."e; In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom …
What Does "Academic" Mean? – Two Essays on the Chances of the University Today
Human Wisdom of St. Thomas
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, "e;on …
Death And Immortality
Explains the meaning of death.