Leisure: The Basis of Culture. Josef Pieper

Leisure: The Basis of Culture


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Leisure: The Basis of Culture Josef Pieper
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One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. Two prominent items of interest for LeisureArts are: 1. PERSPECTIVE Connoisseur of Chaos by Thomas Fleming Worth doing badly. In fact, as modern German philosopher Josef Pieper explained, leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture. VIEWS Liberality, the Basis of Culture by Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. I.- LEISURE THE FOUNDATION OF WESTERN CULTURE: “WE ARE 'UNLEISURELY' IN ORDER TO HAVE LEISURE”-ARISTOTLE-. Wilson are familiar with Josef Pieper's work “Leisure: The Basis of Culture”. I have heard it said that leisure is the basis of culture, and I choose to believe this both because it resonates with the truth I have perceived and because it endorses my preferred lifestyle. His essay Leisure, The Basis of Culture is great! [3] Kathleen Norris, Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and A Writer's Life, (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008), p. Josef Pieper wrote Leisure: The Basis of Culture (1948!). A quote from Joseph Pieper's Leisure the Basis of Culture (p11-12) was helpful to me here: 'The medievals distinguished between the intellect as ratio and the intellect as intellectus. As a way of procrastinating from writing a paper on Unamuno, I recently bought Leisure: the Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper. My dear professor at Notre Dame, Joseph Evans, told us that he read the book every year. In Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas says “The essence of virtue consists in the good rather than in the difficult. 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 Roots of Culture | The Foreword to Josef Pieper's Leisure: The Basis of Culture | Fr. Pieper, Leisure, the Basis of Culture (New York: Mentor-Omega, 1963). So perhaps this week we should also read or reread Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture. Work of course is important, but philosophically I must insist (along with Joseph Pieper) that LEISURE is the true basis of culture and the end of all human work.





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