"No better guide over the thousand-year period called the Middle Ages could be found than Josef Pieper. In this tour de monde medievale, he moves easily back and forth between the figures and doctrines that made medieval philosophy unique in Western thought. After reflecting on the invidious implica[...]
"Pieper [attempts to] show how death must be seen as an experience of the whole man and is properly to be understood as ?punishment.' When he views man's pilgrim status on earth, Pieper is led to assert that death is an act of human freedom, consistent with Creation and redemption. . . . With his ra[...]