Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: St. Augustines Press
Keywords: socratic, logic, questions, principles, platonic, aristotelian, using, pbk, text, method
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2010-01-12
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1587318075
ISBN-13: 9781587318078

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

Author: Peter Kreeft
Publisher: St. Augustines Press
Keywords: socratic, logic, aristotelian, principles, questions, method, text, using, platonic
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 2008-08-29
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1587318059
ISBN-13: 9781587318054

Author: Stanley Rosen
Publisher: St. Augustines Press
Keywords: symposium, plato
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 1999-07-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 1890318647
ISBN-13: 9781890318642

This is the first full-length study of the Symposium to be published in English, and one of the first English works on Plato to take its bearings by the dramatic form of the Platonic dialogue, a thesis that was regarded as heterodox at the time but which today is widely accepted by scholars of the most diverse standpoint. Rosen was also one of the first to study in detail the philosophical significance of the phenomenon of concrete human sexuality, as it is presented by Plato in the diverse characters of the main speakers in the dialogue. His analysis of the theoretical significance of pederas

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: St. Augustines Press
Keywords: claim, concept, tradition
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2010-03-15
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 1587318792
ISBN-13: 9781587318795

Josef Pieper’s Tradition: Concept and Claim analyzes tradition as an idea and as a living reality in the lives and languages of ordinary people. In the modern world of constant, unrelenting change, tradition, says Pieper, is that which must be preserved unchanged. Drawing on thinkers from Plato to Pascal, Pieper describes the key elements and figures in the act of tradition and what is distinctive about it.Pieper argues that the handing down of tradition is not the same as discussing or teaching, despite its similarities to those activities. It means accepting something as true and valid wit

Author: William Ockham
Publisher: St. Augustines Press
Keywords: propositions, theory, ockham
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 1998-01-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1890318515
ISBN-13: 9781890318512

In this work Ockham proposes a theory of simple predication, which he then uses in explicating the truth conditions of progressively more complicated kinds of propositions. His discussion includes what he takes to be the correct semantic treatment of quantified propositions, past tense and future tense propositions, and modal propositions, all of which are receiving much attention from contemporary philosophers. He also illustrates the use of exponential analysis to deal with propositions that prove troublesome in both semantic theory and other disciplines, such as metaphysics, physics, and th