Josef Pieper - Thomist Philosopher - 17 books (pdf) torrent

17 books by German thomist philosopher Josef Pieper. 16 are my own scans; the last one is a second, newer translation of Leisure: The Basis of Culture and is a high-quality pdf. All the others are the usual searchable (clearscan) pdf files.

These were originally uploaded a year ago to another torrent site; the files here are slightly improved over the ones in that original posting.

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German philosophers are typically very hard to read; Thomas Aquinas is also at times very hard to read. But somehow the German thomist Josef Pieper is a pleasure to read. He explores thomist themes in a way that's lucid and inviting.

This is from a profile of Pieper written after his death in 1997:

In the mind and the writings of Josef Pieper the Greek philosophical tradition and the Christian theological tradition met and enriched each other. In one of his characteristically succinct formulations Pieper himself once stated the connection in a way especially fitting if we seek to contemplate the significance of his life’s work: "The ultimate perfection attainable to us, in the minds of the philosophers of Greece, was this: that the order of the whole of existing things should be inscribed in our souls. And this conception was afterwards absorbed into the Christian tradition in the conception of the beatific vision: 'What do they not see, who see him who sees all things?' "