Author: Josef Pieper
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Keywords: love, hope, faith
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1997-03
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0898706238
ISBN-13: 9780898706239

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. Pieper is perhaps the most popular Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century.

Author: Josef Pieper
Publisher: St. Augustines Press
Keywords: contemplation, happiness
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1998-11-15
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 1890318310
ISBN-13: 9781890318314

"The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation." In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom in order to throw light on present-day reality and present-day psychological problems. What, in fact, does one pursue in pursuing happiness? What, in the consensus of the wisdom of the early Greeks, of Plato and Aristotle, of the New Testament, of Augustine and Aquinas, is that condition of perfect bliss toward which all life and effort tend by nature? In this profound and illuminating inquiry, Pieper considers the na

Authors:Josef Pieper, Josef Pieper,
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Keywords: anthology, pieper, josef
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 1989-03-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0898702267
ISBN-13: 9780898702262

Foreward by Hans Urs von BalthasarNear 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.Pieper’s reputation rests on his remarkable ability to restate traditional wisdom in terms of contemporary problems. He is a philosopher who writes in the language of common sense, presenting involved issues in

Author: Josef Pieper
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Keywords: abuse, power, language
Number of Pages: 54
Published: 1992-04-01
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 089870362X
ISBN-13: 9780898703627

One 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. Reality becomes intelligible through words. Man speaks so that through naming things, what is real may become intelligible. This mediating character of language, however, is being increasingly corrupted. Tyranny, propaganda, mass-media destroy and distort words. They offer us apparent realitie

Author: Josef Pieper
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Keywords: virtues, cardinal, four
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1966-03-31
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0268001030
ISBN-13: 9780268001032

In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef 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 significance of the Christian virtues.

Author: Josef Pieper
Publisher: St. Augustines Press
Keywords: sin, concept
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2001-04-15
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 1890318086
ISBN-13: 9781890318086

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 one is trying to get a laugh." But this small work will interpret sin in its true – that is, serious – meaning. What will emerge from its analysis is the discovery that the concept of sin can still serve to unlock the mystery of existence, at least for a thinking that wants to press down to the very foundations. Needless to say, such an effort will require a kind of

Author: Josef Pieper
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Keywords: hope
Number of Pages: 99
Published: 1986-05
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0898700671
ISBN-13: 9780898700671