Name: Guide to Thomas Aquinas
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Author: Josef Pieper
ISBN: 9780898703191

Type

Physical Book

Author

Josef Pieper

Publisher

Ignatius Press

Year

1991

Language

English

Pages

182

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3x13.7x1.5 cm

Weight

0.25 kg.

ISBN

0898703190

ISBN13

9780898703191

Edition No.

Synopsis "Guide to Thomas Aquinas "

One of the great philosophers of the 20th Century, Josef Pieper, gives a penetrating introduction and guide to the life and works of perhaps the greatest philosopher ever, St. Thomas Aquinas. Pieper provides a biography of Aquinas, an overview of the 13th century he lived in, and a wonderful synthesis of his vast writings. Pieper shows how Aquinas reconciled the pragmatic thought of Aristotle with the Church, proving that realistic knowledge need not preclude belief in the spiritual realities of religion. According to Pieper, the marriage of faith and reason proposed by Aquinas in his great synthesis of a "theologically founded worldliness" was not merely one solution among many, but the great principle expressing the essence of the Christian West. Pieper reveals his extraordinary command of original sources and excellent secondary materials as he illuminates the thought of the great intellectual Doctor of the Church.

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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