Divine Madness: Plato's Case Against Secular Humanism

by Josef Pieper

The popular Thomistic philosopher and writer Josef Pieper focuses on the thesis of Plato, which at first sight appears strange and unrealistic, that those experiences that advance human life to its true fullness are bestowed on us only during a "god-given" state of "being-beside-oneself". This thesis is then resolutely confronted with our contemporary and above all psychoanalytical knowledge of man's nature, as well as with the Christian conception...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898705576
• ISBN13: 9780898705577
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 59 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.8" x 7.2"