Josef Pieper

Naissance 1904 · Décès 1997

Citations

“It pertains to the very nature of a philosophical question that its answer will not be a "perfectly rounded truth" (as Parmenides said it), grasped in the hand like an apple plucked from a tree.”
The Philosophical Act, P. 63En anglais
“If someone needs the "unusual" to be moved to astonishment, that person has lost the ability to respond rightly to the wondrous, the mirandum, of being.”
The Philosophical Act, p. 102En anglais
“He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.”
The Philosophical Act, p. 106En anglais
“Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.”
The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, TemperanceEn anglais

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Les livres de Josef Pieper dans l'ordre de parution, de Musse Und Kult (1948) à What Does "Academic" Mean? (2015).