Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

Leisure: The Basis of Culture



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ISBN: 9781586172565
Format: pdf
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Page: 145


* Chapter 1: Leisure is the goal of labor. Following is a linked index to my posts on the book. I'll post just a couple or three more times on the Kraut anthology (The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics). VIEWS Liberality, the Basis of Culture by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. Leisure the Basis of Aristotelian Culture. In 2009 I participated in an online book club on Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture. I would strongly urge a reading of Josef Pieper “Leisure, The Basis of Culture” There he argues that we are losing our ability to do true philosophical work that is more contemplative, or receptive, in nature. Pieper wrote the two very readable essays in this book, “Leisure: the Basis of Culture” and “The Philosophical Act,” at the end of World War II. The words school, scholastic, and scholar have origins in the Latin scola and scholasticus, the Greek scholeion and scholastikos, and the ancient Greek sxolí or skolí, meaning 'leisure' or 'place of leisure'. The book was first published in 1952. Immediately under the title Frye typed “Leisure, the Basis of Culture. PERSPECTIVE Connoisseur of Chaos by Thomas Fleming Worth doing badly. Translated by Alexander Dru with an Introduction by T.S. It's time to move on to something else.





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