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Happiness and Contemplation
Product ID: PHL2027
Description:
"The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation."
In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom in order to throw light on present-day reality and present-day psychological problems. What, in fact does one pursue in pursuing happines? What, in the consensus of the wisdom of the early Greeks, of Plato and Aristotle, of the New Testament, of Augustine and Aquinas, is that condition of perfect bliss toward which all life and effort tend by nature?
In this profound and illumating inquiry, Pieper considers the nature of contemplation, and the meaning and goal of life.
Josef Pieper. 124 pages. Sewn hardcover. Published by St. Augustine's Press.
$19.00
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