Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper

Leisure: The Basis of Culture



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Leisure: The Basis of Culture Josef Pieper ebook
ISBN: 9781586172565
Format: pdf
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Page: 145


It just fell out this way the past few months. We discussed Pieper's Leisure as the Basis of Culture at our first meeting. Somewhere, Patrick has an excellent rant on the insult of "too much time on his hands," also known as "get a life." If I manage to locate it, I will report back. The course he is giving – on contemplation and technology – is a course that uses Josef Piepers ”Leisure as the basis of culture” (1947) as a starting point. Leisure truly is the Basis of Culture. The Saint Socrates Society reading group is underway. If this site has been woefully lagging in posts, it is not because I am doing a study on what happens to people who have no leisure. Globalfund - August 22, 2006 @ 9:35 am · Filed under Culture. Next week we will discuss Pieper's “The Philosophical Act”. From Benedict XVI, VATICAN CITY, AUG. "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. Consider Josef Pieper's Leisure: The Basis of Culture, a meditation on “inactivism,” not idleness, but genuine reflection on the meaning of life. Wasn't there a book called "Leisure, the Basis of Culture"? Pieper wrote the two very readable essays in this book, “Leisure: the Basis of Culture” and “The Philosophical Act,” at the end of World War II. The good of book groups is not only the accountability of actually reading, but also the accountability of actually thinking about what you're reading. The book was first published in 1952. Leisure: The Basis of Culture - Despite the chaos our current economy is experiencing, this is a perfect book to better understand the problems and the solutions.





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