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This 4-page paper incorporates the infomation from Happiness and Contemplation by Josef Pieper. It is developed around an ethical issue of choice, which also applies the Virtue, Denotological, and Consequentialist Theories. There is 1 source cited.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Josef Pieper Research Compiled for The
Paper Store, Inc. by P. Giltman 7/2010 Please Born in Germany in 1904, Josef Pieper was a Catholic philosopher who
spoke of virtue, ethics and religion. He was adamant follower of St. Thomas Aquinas and Kierkegaard. The injustices of the world led him to law school and a study of
various sociology courses. However, writing about justice in Nazi Germany was impossible, he once said, so he returned to philosophy because of his hero St. Thomas Aquinas in which most
of his works dealt with virtue and temperance. During and after World War II, Pieper wrote many of his philosophical works. One of which pronounced the theses that culture is
founded on leisure and the other is that leisure has its roots within the region of cult. In another one of his famous works called "Happiness and Contemplation" written in
1958, Pieper, to no surprise, quotes Aquinas extensively and states that lifes activity is directed towards one end and that end is happiness. However, we must achieve that end through
vision or contemplation which means happiness does not come automatically. Humans have to seek it and work at it. Most of the book is devoted to an examination of
happiness and its linguistic usage. It also incorporates the nature of our desire for happiness, the metaphysics of happiness, and the cause of happiness. The book also delineates the relationship
between happiness and joy or cause and effect, and the means to which one may achieve happiness. And to Pieper the way to achieve happiness is by contemplation (Book Notes,
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