The Order of Things5 reviews Father James V. Schall Ignatius Press, 2007 Challenging, thought provoking, and relevant + really, though! + "A Book about. . .Well, Everything" + A Veritable Smorgasbord of Unified Reflections on Order + Not Just A Book But A Meditation On Order             Happy Are You Poor: The Simple Life and Spiritual Freedom11 reviews Thomas Dubay Ignatius Press, 2002 Thoroughly convicting, and encouraging + The truth.... + Excellent and Challenging + This book will challenge you to sainthood!             The Screwtape Letters368 reviews C. S. Lewis HarperOne, 2001 Enlightening read for committed (and thinking) Christians + Agree with Most Helpful Critical Review + Funny (and Serious) as Hell ! + Insights on The Operation of the Realm of Darkness + A Classic in Christianity             The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity2 reviews Dietrich von Hildebrand St. Augustines Press, 2007 Incredible book on affectivity + Stunning! Most of western philosophy has attributed two spiritual aspects to man: rationality and volition. As a result, the heart has been downplayed as being part of the animalistic, and thus lower, side of man. Von Hildebrand, however, saw that there are aspects of the emotional life that are truly ...             The Republic Of Plato: Second Edition41 reviews Plato Basic Books, 1991 Great Political Theory and Philosophy + Indispensable + Correcting two reviewers + Nice Translation! + Best Literal Translation             Peace of Soul5 reviews Fulton J. Sheen Liguori Publications, 1996 I love Fulton Sheen, his book has helped turn my life around + If EVER there were a SOUL, FULTON can give it PEACE!!! + An Outstanding engagement with modern thought + ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN             On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, Playing, Believing, Lecturing, Philosophizing, ...6 reviews James V. Schall ISI Books, 2002 Humane and Challenging + A Precious Gem + An amazing book + Essential reading + Charming             The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods8 reviews A. G. Sertillanges Catholic University of America Press, 1987 Absolutely gorgeous book! + A Guide to (Christian) Scholarship + A classic text having lost none of its relevance for modern day seekers of Truth + Contact with Genius             Parochial and Plain Sermons5 reviews John Henry Cardinal Newman Ignatius Press, 1997 A Modern "Father" of the Church from the Age of Victoria + Newman's Anglican Sermons + A Spiritual Classic + Newman Masterfully Blends Doctrine With the Spiritual Life + Great Writing, Great Publication             Guide for the Perplexed32 reviews E. F. Schumacher Harper Perennial, 1978 One of my favorite books + A WONDERFUL WORK IN APPLIED THEOLOGY + A teasure whose brevity belies its depth + Reading This Book Could Be the Turning Point in Your Life             The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking3 reviews James V. Schall Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006 In praise of thought + Understand what is Schall has become one of my favorite authors. He cuts through the trendy, the merely useful, and everything else we tend to think of as urgent and invites us to do what we were meant to do: seek truth. In the process, he reintroduces us to Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Boswell, Chesterton, and scores ...             For Love of Wisdom: Essays on the Nature of Philosophy Josef Pieper Ignatius Press, 2007 In these elegant and engaging essays, the internationally acclaimed Thomist, Josef Pieper, defines and defends philosophy as the search for and love of wisdom. True philosophy is not the work of joyless academics pondering over esoteric writings that have no relation to real life. Rather, the philosophical act, in which all reasonable men can participate, begins in wonder at what is, ...             At the End of an Age14 reviews John Lukacs Yale University Press, 2003 If Lukacs is right the implications are mind boggling + Philosophy and History at its BEST Fleeing from a not yet wholly Sovietized Hungary to the US, Lukacs was convinced 20 years ago that the entire Modern Age was crumbling fast. By 2002 he was able to write that during the past 10 years his conviction had hardened into an unquestioning belief that not only an entire age and the ...             Confessions of Augustine1 review Saint Augustine Hackett Publishing Company, 2007 the editor's preface Michael P. Foley's "Editor's Preface" to this edition of Confessions contextualizes the translation well. It serves to locate Sheed's translation historically and academically. The "Editor's Preface" also discusses the cover art for this edition. That discussion is not only an insightful ...             Happiness and Contemplation3 reviews Josef Pieper St. Augustine's Press, 1998 A True Work of Art + What Do You Seek? + Is there one greatest good for all? Josef Pieper gave us a true and indisputable work of art in this short book. The theme is that man's happiness is found in contemplation, in seeing, in being together with, in the presence of the only beloved object that fully satisfies: God who is perfect goodness, truth, and beauty. The face of ...             Another Sort of Learning9 reviews James V. Schall Ignatius Press, 1988 Building the proper library + humanizing + Excellent essays with a fine bibliography + Schall's 'On Everything' -- Not To Be Missed + Wish more people knew of this book             The Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life1 review Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Tan Books & Publishers, 2002 Not for Beginners This is an excellent book. It describes the growth in the spiritual life in three stages. It is not for beginners. It is for a person who has been seriously pursuing a direct relationship with God for at least a year. It provides an excellent road map for one who has experienced at least the first ...             Confessions of an Original Sinner3 reviews John Lukacs St. Augustine's Press, 2000 Thoughtful and Inisghtful View of Life + Mr Lukacs wears his humanity on his sleeve + An Original Life This is no doubt one the most heartfelt and honest memoirs I have ever read. John Lucaks, teacher and historian, tells us early on of how he escaped from Hungary shortly after World War II. He lived under the Nazi's and then the Communists, despised both, and then made a life for himself in ...             Against the Idols of the Age12 reviews David Stove Transaction Publishers, 1999 A representative collection from an original thinker + A Stove of Inspiration + The Stove Cult and other Philosophical Frivolities This book is a collection of 12 essays, all of which have appeared before in other books by the same author. There are 4 essays from 'Darwinian Fairytales', 4 from 'Cricket versus Republicanism', 3 from 'The Plato Cult', and 1 from 'Popper and After' (later retitled 'Anything Goes'). So if you are ...             Nicomachean Ethics: Aristotle40 reviews Martin Ostwald Prentice Hall, 1962 Translations differ + A must-have translation. + For those who want a theory to excellence + Aristotle continues to hit home + We Reach Our Complete Perfection Through Habit