Name: The Human Wisdom of st. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy From the Works of st. Thomas Aquinas
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Author: Josef Pieper
ISBN: 9781773238029

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The Human Wisdom of st. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy From the Works of st. Thomas Aquinas

Type

Physical Book

Author

Josef Pieper

Translated by

Drostan MacLaren

Publisher

Must Have Books

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

126

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781773238029

Synopsis "The Human Wisdom of st. Thomas: A Breviary of Philosophy From the Works of st. Thomas Aquinas "

Josef Pieper has attached no commentary to the texts brought together in this breviary of the philosophy of St. Thomas, preferring that the reader should encounter them, "on his own". His work has been one of selection, in which he has sought to assemble such passages as will provide an introduction to the form and design of the whole Thomistic system. Yet he has so ordered his texts as to impress upon the reader a special feature of St. Thomas's thought, what he calls its double aspect: St. Thomas sees the whole scheme of reality ordered and penetrable by reason; yet the mystery of Being itself remains: "The effort of human thought has not been able to track down the essence of a single gnat." Author Josef Pieper himself was one of the most highly regarded Thomistic philosophers of the twentieth century.

Josef Pieper

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Josef Pieper was a German neo-scholastic philosopher. He studied Philosophy, Law, and Sociology at the Universities of Berlin and Münster. He began his teaching career in 1946 at the Essen Higher School of Education. Since 1950, he was a full professor of Philosophical Anthropology at the University of Münster.

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