In Defense of Philosophy: Classical Wisdom Stands Up to Modern Challenges (USED)

Description: Product Description : In Defense of Philosophy: Classical Wisdom Stands Up to Modern Challenges This book is an engagement between a great modern philosopher defending classical philosophy against an army of challengers to the very notion of philosophy as classically conceived It is written very much in the spirit of the scholastic disputations in the medieval universities which produced the great Summas a mutual search for truth a philosophical laboratory a careful winnowing of each objection Such objectivity is lamentably rare in contemporary philosophyIn order to combat modern misunderstandings of challenges to the classical concept of philosophy Pieper shows us the unique and uniquely valuable thing philosophy is as conceived by his masters Socrates Plato Aristotle Augustine and above all Aquinas Along this path he scatters gems of insight such as art and religion as Philosophys defenders the relationship between philosophy and science philosophy as seeing and saying and philosophy as rooted in meditation and loving contemplation Pieper emphasizes that philosophy is something all human beings do and should be the better for doing( it is an used product )

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