Festivity and the goodness of Creation

Festivity and the goodness of Creation

Drawing on Josef Pieper’s ideas, Ken Myers explains why the spirit of festivity is the spirit of worship, and that “entertainment” is ultimately an artificial, contrived, and empty effort to achieve festivity. (25 minutes)
Visionary education

Visionary education

Josef Pieper on the mistake of confusing education with mere training
The truth sent from above

The truth sent from above

Josef Pieper on why philosophy needs theology
The fountainhead from which perversions gush

The fountainhead from which perversions gush

Josef Pieper on how refusing to acknowledge the spiritual core of our true nature leads to a “roaming restlessness of the spirit”
Festivity: real or sham?

Festivity: real or sham?

Josef Pieper on why we celebrate (and why some people can’t)
Roger Kimball: “Josef Pieper: Leisure and Its Discontents”

Roger Kimball: “Josef Pieper: Leisure and Its Discontents”

Roger Kimball introduces listeners to Josef Pieper’s arguments about the nature of leisure, which are claims about the nature of philosophy and of human well-being. (34 minutes)