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The End of Time: A Meditation on the Philosophy of History Kindle Edition

by Josef Pieper (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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This is a work of rare prophetic brilliance by Josef Pieper, one of this century's most profound and lucid expositors of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. This book was written to throw light on an ancient question that has vexed and tormented many. What is the nature of ""The End"" toward which, even now, the world and men are moving? No writer of our time is better equipped to answer that question than Pieper. He provides the most rigorous and sustained philosophical analysis, anchored to ""the primeval rock of theological pronouncement"", in order precisely to understand the finalities of time and history.

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Josef Pieper, perhaps the most popular Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century, was schooled in the Greek classics and the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. He also studied philosophy, law, and sociology, and he was a professor at the University of Munster, West Germany. His numerous books have been widely praised by both the secular and religious press.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00564CXDC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ignatius Press (June 3, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 3, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 330 KB
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R Somers
5.0 out of 5 stars Time and the philosophy of history
Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2016
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This is the best book I have read on the philosophy of history from a Christian perspective.
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Mclusky
4.0 out of 5 stars Not What I Expected, But Interesting Nonetheless
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2017
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I have an intellectual interest in Time as a philosophical concept so I thought that the popular Thomist Josef Pieper would have something interesting and enlightening to say on the topic, and I was right, but this was more a book about the Apocalypse than a philosophical treatise on time. It's more theology than philosophy, or I should say, it's a book whose contents are about the End Times. Not what I expected, but it was a good read nonetheless. Definitely not what I was expecting.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2016
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the great mind of the 20th cent
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Alan Gallagher
5.0 out of 5 stars I first read this book in the 1960s, and ...
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2018
I first read this book in the 1960s, and have read it many times since. It is a meditation on history and what is possible to achieve in history, as well as what has been achieved. Perhaps its main point is that, because of Revelation, we know that history has a destination, is not cyclical, and that what is important is "salvation or disaster." This is history in view of the Incarnation and Resurrection, where we have a sense of what the Future will be, though not with precision or timing. There IS history, not mere recurrence, not mere chance, not mere "evolution" in aimlessness, and the study of history can thus dwell on important questions, not trivia as it so often does. Pieper is a Catholic, Thomist, theologian, who writes with outstanding clarity and beauty, whatever his topic. Greek reason joined with Jewish and Catholic Revelation gives us unique access to truth, and confidence in truth and real science. We are confident in the author, whose command of the subject is sure, from Aristotle to Aquinas to modern philosophy.
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Aquinas
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful insights into the nature of end of time
Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2008
This is not Pieper at his best but nonetheless very enjoyable. It is curious that (unlike Gilson), Pieper indicates that it is essential that any philosophising ahout time must have a theological underpinning. I suppose if there is isn't a theological underpinning how does one discern where time is cyclical (like Buddhism) or linear with a beginning an an end (Christianity). I found Pieper's insights re the anti-christ and the end of time very valuable, the idea that the anti-christ will appea pre-eminently ethical and rational.
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