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Leisure: The Basis of Culture Josef Pieper
Publisher: Ignatius Press

Leisure: The Basis of Culture Chapter 1. Following is a linked index to my posts on the book. By Josef Pieper – Ignatius Press (2009) – Paperback – 143 pages – ISBN 1586172565. Josef Pieper advocated that leisure must be seen again as the true basis of culture. To read a literary journal requires leisure; and to be reading this new literary journal suggests an excess of it. In 2009 I participated in an online book club on Joseph Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture. Globalfund - August 22, 2006 @ 9:35 am · Filed under Culture. Next week we will discuss Pieper's “The Philosophical Act”. The Saint Socrates Society reading group is underway. As a way of procrastinating from writing a paper on Unamuno, I recently bought Leisure: the Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper. Leisure: The Basis of Culture and the Philosophical Act. * Chapter 1: Leisure is the goal of labor. From Benedict XVI, VATICAN CITY, AUG. 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. We discussed Pieper's Leisure as the Basis of Culture at our first meeting. Leisure: The Basis of Culture, Pieper, Josef, Philosophy Books - Blackwell Online Bookshop. Without a doubt, this is going to be an incredible book club experience. I would strongly urge a reading of Josef Pieper “Leisure, The Basis of Culture” There he argues that we are losing our ability to do true philosophical work that is more contemplative, or receptive, in nature.