Josef Pieper The popular and highly regarded Pieper speaks of the necessity for human persons to be able to contemplate and appreciate beauty to develop their full humanity. Pieper expresses succinctly that the foundation of the human person in society is leisure, free time in which one can contemplate, be receptive to being and its beauty. "Joy is more profound than sadness, and our capacity to delight in what is mostly determines what we are. Josef Pieper's welcome guidance on leisure, festivity, and contemplation is the most secure and most exciting way to arrive at, and to delight in, the truth in things. Pieper teaches us through music, sculpture, and poetry to see the luminous beauty that reflects an origin deeper than themselves." - James V. Schall, S.J., Georgetown University Table of Contents: Preface Work, Spare Time, and Leisure Learning How to See Again Thoughts about Music Music and Silence Three Talks in a Sculptor's Studio Remembrance: Mother of the Muses Those "Guests at the Festival" Vita Contemplativa - the Comtemplative Life
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Reflections on the spiritual value of art,
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This is a beautiful little book, actually a compil-ation of lectures delivered at musical events and openings. With references to the ancient philosophers, it reminds us of the moral and spiritual force of genuine "seeing" and "hearing." A learned series of essays, but written in an accessible, and poetic, way.
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This is an excellent book that allows for the integration of appeciating the aesthetic value of a piece of art, poetry, or music to meditation and contemplation. What is more, the value of this small book is tremendous in content and wisdom, integrating the thought of some of the most intellectual geniuses, such as: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Nietzsche, and many others. For such a small piece of work, it carries a lot of value and significance, which can be applied to our daily lives.
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A Sampler in Christian Aesthetics,
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This is a collection of brief speeches given the late Josef Pieper, one of the most popular Thomist philosophers of the last century. The topics addressed include work and leisure, music, seeing, sculpture, celebration, and contemplation.
The book's title is taken from St. Augustine's remark that "only he who loves can sing," and if there is an underlying theme to these occasional pieces it is that art and love, aesthetics and spirituality, cannot be divorced. A sample quote: "Contemplation is visual perception prompted by loving acceptance." Due to their brevity, these essays can only be suggestive. But perhaps they may whet the reader's appetite for more substantial portions of Pieper's thoughtful yet accessible philosophizing.
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- Doctor Faustus (Everyman's Library) by Thomas Mann on page 46, and page 63
- Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on page 72
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on page 27
- Teaching Character Education through Literature: Awakening the Moral Imagination in Secondary Classrooms (Teaching Character Education S) by Karen Bohlin in Back Matter
- Practicing Mortality: Art, Philosophy, and Contemplative Seeing by Christopher A. Dustin in Front Matter
- Inner Journeying Through Art-journaling: Learning to See And Record Your Life As a Work of Art by Marianne Hieb in Back Matter
- Idylls and Rambles: Lighter Christian Essays by James V. Schall on page 195
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