No better guide over the thousand -year period called the Middle Ages could be found thatn the author. In this amazing tour de monde medievale, he moves easily back and forth between the figures an…
In this book Pieper talks about philosophers from Boethius to William of Ockham. I agree with his definition of the middle ages such that Augustine is excluded, and instead defining a Christian per…
In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary …
This book guide and introduction to the life and works of Thomas Aquinas, Josef Pieper presents the thirteenth-century saint writing, teaching, and debating at the University of Paris, and solving …