Leisure: The Basis of Culture
10 best books like Leisure: The Basis of Culture (Josef Pieper): Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart, Beauty in the Word, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Beauty for Truth's Sake: The Re-Enchantment of Education, Fides et Ratio: On the Relationship Between Faith and Reason, Ideas Have Consequences, The Idea of a University, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods, The Reed of God, Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis
Searching for and Maintaining Peace: A Small Treatise on Peace of Heart
| Author | Jacques Philippe |
| ISBN | 0818909064 |
FINAL REVIEW: Some books really are life-changing. Searching for and Maintaining Peace is one of them. There really aren’t enough accolades I can give this book. If you happen to already be a calm peaceful person who takes whatever happens to you in stride, you may never need this book. As for me, I am...
| Author | Stratford Caldecott |
| ISBN | 1621380041 |
What is a good education? What is it for? To answer these questions, Stratford Caldecott shines a fresh light on the three arts of language, in a marvelous recasting of the Trivium whereby Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric are explored as Remembering, Thinking, and Communicating. These are the foundational...
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
| Author | Alasdair MacIntyre |
| ISBN | 0268006113 |
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it “a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world.” Since that time,...
| Author | Stratford Caldecott |
| ISBN | 1587432625 |
Own. Wish I could do 3.5 stars.
I’m both smarter and dumber after reading this book.
This book is unabashedly Roman Catholic; quoting RC theologians and philosophers regularly and consistently, including the two most recent Popes frequently. His section on learning being by...
| Author | John Paul II |
| ISBN | 0819826693 |
I found this to be a splendid example of the similarity between science and religion: both rest on faith statements and proceed by logical analysis. If you think science does not rest on faith statements, consider "Hume's Problem of Induction" and "Popperian Falsification."
Five stars!...
| Author | Richard M. Weaver |
| ISBN | 0226876802 |
In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that the world is intelligible and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age the catastrophes of our age are the product of unintelligent choice and the cure lies...
| Author | John Henry Newman |
| ISBN | 0268011508 |
All the while I was listening to, reading along with, and contemplating Newman’s The Idea of a University I’ve been fighting this overwhelming sense of inadequacy. I can’t remember when I’ve encountered an author who’s challenged me so. While an excellent discipline and one to which I do...
| Author | Antonin Sertillanges |
| ISBN | 0813206464 |
"Evening! how little , usually, people know about making it holy and quiet, about using it to prepare for really restorative sleep! How it is wasted, polluted, misdirected."
~~ quote from The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges, O.P.
It has taken me a year to work my way through...
| Author | Caryll Houselander |
| ISBN | 0870612409 |
It seems to me that one of the best things a person can say about a book upon completing it is that he wishes it was longer. This is my experience with "The Reed of God." Not simply a journey with the Virgin Mary from the Annunciation to the Assumption, it is one long prayer with her. Spiritual insights into...
Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis
The sexual abuse scandal has gripped the Catholic Church for the past thirty years, and continues to wreak havoc even today.
It's been a diabolical masterpiece, one that has compromised the work of the Church in every way and has left countless lives in ruin.
Many Catholics are understandably...
Work Clean: The life-changing power of mise-en-place to organize your life, work, and mind
| Author | Dan Charnas |
| ISBN | 1623365929 |
The first organizational book inspired by the culinary world, taking mise-en-place outside the kitchen.
Every day, chefs across the globe churn out enormous amounts of high-quality work with efficiency using a system called mise-en-place—a French culinary term that means “putting...
Something They Will Not Forget
Every teacher has suffered the demoralizing realization that most students quickly forget the content they are taught. Many sophomores, for example, could not pass a literature exam or history quiz which they aced during freshman year. While most teachers are too embarrassed to admit this, their...
