Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

Leisure: The Basis of Culture



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ISBN: 9781586172565
Publisher: Ignatius Press
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Next week we will discuss Pieper's “The Philosophical Act”. 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'. We discussed Pieper's Leisure as the Basis of Culture at our first meeting. "What matters in an idea is not its origin but its magnitude Truth alone has a claim, and it has that claim wherever it appears." ~ Sertillanges. In Psalm 46:10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God.” In his book, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Josef Pieper says this can also be interpreted to mean, “Have leisure, and know that I am God. Translated by Alexander Dru with an Introduction by T.S. The Saint Socrates Society reading group is underway. PERSPECTIVE Connoisseur of Chaos by Thomas Fleming Worth doing badly. 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. Leisure - the Basis of Culture Piepers message for us is plain. VIEWS Liberality, the Basis of Culture by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. Immediately under the title Frye typed “Leisure, the Basis of Culture.





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