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Josef Pieper was professor of philosophical anthropology at the University of Münster/Germany; he was a member of several academies and received numerous awards and distinctions, among them the International Balzan Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of humanities. Pieper is among the most widely read philosophers of the 20th century. The main focus of his thought is the overcoming of cultural forms of secular totalitarianism and of its philosophical foundations through a rehabilitation of the Christian concept of man that is related to experience and action. Plato and Thomas Aquinas in particular were the inspiring sources of a constructive criticism of contemporary culture.
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Plato's Case Against Secular Humanism
1989
1999
1997
Essays on the Nature of Philosophy
2007
1958
1957
1967
1992
Contributions to An Answer
1991
1963
1963
The Basis of Culture
1948
1989
Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen 1904 bis 1945
2011
1935
Art and Contemplation
1990
1937
Personalities and Problems of Medieval Philosophy
1964
1999
2011
1977
A Meditation on the Philosophy of History
1982
1959
A Breviary of Philosophy from the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas
2002
A Breviary of Philosophy from the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas
1960
2010
1980
Essays on Faith in the Modern Age
1985
Concept and Claim
1958
1954
Two Essays on the Chances of the University Today
2015
