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

by Josef Pieper

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0898703972
• ISBN13: 9780898703979
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.7" x 7.2"