Living the Truth: The Truth of All Things and Reality and the Good

by Josef Pieper

Publisher:

Ignatius

, 1989

Overview

This volume presents several illuminating treatises of Josef Pieper on Thomistic anthropology and on the principles of right human behavior based on anthropology. Living the Truth combines Piper’s books—Truth of All Things and Reality and the Good—into one volume. With his characteristic lucidity, Pieper shows how all reality is positioned between the mind of God and the mind of man, and is the basis for man’s unquenchable yearning and the measure of all man’s knowledge. He then develops the Thomistic position that reality is also the basis for the good and therefore the norm of conscience and ethical action.

Product Details

• Title: Living the Truth: The Truth of All Things and Reality and the Good
• Author: Josef Pieper
• Publisher: Ignatius
• Print Publication Date: 1989
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 190
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274; Truth; Reality; Philosophical anthropology
• ISBNs: 9780898702613, 0898702615
• Resource ID: LLS:LIVINGTHETRTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:14:26Z

About Josef Pieper

Josef Pieper (May 4, 1904 – November 6, 1997) was a German Catholic philosopher, at the forefront of the Neo-Thomistic wave in twentieth century Catholic philosophy. Among his most notable works are The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance; Leisure: the Basis of Culture; The Philosophical Act and Guide to Thomas Aquinas (published in England as Introduction to Thomas Aquinas). He translated C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain, into German.