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
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781586172565
Page: 145


We discussed Pieper's Leisure as the Basis of Culture at our first meeting. The Saint Socrates Society reading group is underway. It just fell out this way the past few months. The writer who speaks of Leisure, the Basis of Culture (Josef Pieper) is confused, even though he can quote some ancient Greek thinkers in his support. In his book, “Leisure: The Basis of Culture,” the Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper called leisure a “condition of the soul.” It's not the same thing as inactivity or quiet. Translated by Alexander Dru with an Introduction by T.S. Leisure, the basis of culture by Josef Pieper. Next week we will discuss Pieper's “The Philosophical Act”. Several colleagues have recommended this book over the years, and I was very grateful when I read it recently. 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. The Resurrection of Christian Culture. Leisure truly is the Basis of Culture. Immediately under the title Frye typed “Leisure, the Basis of Culture. But that's not how Christianity understands leisure. The Barbed Gift of Leisure in The Chronicle Review looks at how robots, by replacing our need to work, can change our relationship with leisure.





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