Leisure: The Basis of Culture Josef Pieper
Publisher: Ignatius Press

The Roots of Culture | The Foreword to Josef Pieper's Leisure: The Basis of Culture | Fr. The content of the article and your piece is addressed by a German philosopher Josef Pieper, author of Leisure: the basis of culture (1951). Leisure, The Basis of Culture, by Josef Pieper Leisure, Pieper says, is living and being able to make choices. "Leisure has had a bad press," writes British philosopher Roger Scruton in the introduction of this edition to this brilliant work by German philosopher Josef Pieper. Immediately under the title Frye typed “Leisure, the Basis of Culture. The course he is giving – on contemplation and technology – is a course that uses Josef Piepers ”Leisure as the basis of culture” (1947) as a starting point. Translated by Alexander Dru with an Introduction by T.S. The words school, scholastic, and scholar have origins in the Latin scola and scholasticus, the Greek scholeion and scholastikos, and the ancient Greek sxolí or skolí, meaning 'leisure' or 'place of leisure'. In making choices, we form ourselves, we become. As such, it is not merely what we do that is NOT "job". Andrew caught my attention in his own reference to the estimable German Catholic philosopher, Josef Pieper -- author of such works as Leisure the Basis of Culture and In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity. In Summa Theologica, Thomas Aquinas says “The essence of virtue consists in the good rather than in the difficult.