6 must-read philosophy books like Tradition: Concept and Claim by Josef Pieper

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Tradition: Concept and Claim

By: Josef Pieper

4.03

Format: 97 pages, Hardcover

Josef Pieper's Tradition: Concept and Claim analyzes tradition as an idea and as a living reality i…

"And, of course, neither point of view should be confused with a conservatism that indiscriminately resists all innovation. Of course, this conservatism really exists, as everybody knows. More than that, it seems to belong to one of the so-to-speak natural categories of decadence and risks against which everyone who accepts and assents to sacred tradition as a basic reality of history as it really occurs must arm himself from the start."

-Josef Pieper, Tradition: Concept and Claim

"And, of course, neither point of view should be confused with a conservatism that indiscriminately resists all innovation. Of course, this conservatism really exists, as everybody knows. More than that, it seems to belong to one of the so-to-speak natural categories of decadence and risks against which everyone who accepts and assents to sacred tradition as a basic reality of history as it really occurs must arm himself from the start."

-Josef Pieper, Tradition: Concept and Claim

If you liked the philosophy plot in Tradition: Concept and Claim by Josef Pieper , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more

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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

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2. City of God

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

Format: 1186 pages, Paperback

No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • history
"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

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3. Hannah Coulter

By: Wendell Berry

4.38

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Hannah Coulter is Wendell Berry's seventh novel and his first to employ the voice of a woman charac… read more

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"Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Living right on called for nothing out of the ordinary. We made no changes. We only accepted the changes as they came."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

"Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me."

-Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter

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4. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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5. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

6. My Ántonia

By: Willa Cather

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Through Jim Burden's endearing, smitten voice, we revisit the remarkable vicissitudes of immigrant … read more

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7. Gathering Blue (The Giver, #2)

By: Lois Lowry

3.80

Format: 245 pages,

In her strongest work to date, Lois Lowry once again creates a mysterious but plausible future worl… read more

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8. Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus

By: Euripides

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus Translated by John Davie with an Introduction an… read more

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9. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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  • religion
  • history
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10. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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  • religion
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11. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
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12. Meno

By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • philosophy
  • history
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13. The Last Gentleman

By: Walker Percy

3.57

Format: None pages,

Will Barrett is a 25-year-old wanderer from the South living in New York City, detached from his ro… read more

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14. The Brothers Karamazov

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

Format: 796 pages, Paperback

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
"How good life is when one does something good and just!"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Forgive me... for my love - for ruining you with my love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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15. Il visconte dimezzato

By: Italo Calvino

3.82

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

[Trovi un'edizione con copertina alternativa per questo ISBN qui] Il narratore rievoca la storia… read more

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"نظراً لقلة معرفتهم بكل ما هو خطيئة ,كانوا يضاعفون في الممنوعات حتى لا يخطئوا."

-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

"Gridò, se si può dir che gridi chi parla senza emetter quasi suono ma con tutta la sua forza."

-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

"جوانی... سنی که احساس ها هنوز حالتی مبهم دارند و خیر و شر هنوز مشخص نیست، سنی که عشق به زندگی به هر تجربه جدید، حتی غیر انسانی و مرگبار، حدت و جوش و خروش خاصی می بخشد."

-Italo Calvino, Il visconte dimezzato

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16. A Canticle for Leibowitz

By: Walter M. Miller Jr.

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, po… read more

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17. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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18. Dark Night of the Soul

By: None , None

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

A 16th-century mystic, St. John of the Cross was also a Carmelite monk who helped reform the Order.… read more

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19. Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

By: Pope Benedict XVI , Pope John Paul II , Catholic Church , United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

4.50

Format: 846 pages, Paperback

Over 3 million copies sold!  Essential reading for Catholics of all walks of life. Here it is - th… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
"  Man and woman were made “for each other"

-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

"The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship."

-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

"The Catholic wisdom of the people... provides reasons for joy and humor even in the midst of a very hard life."

-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

"When I am completely united to you, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of you, my life will be complete"

-Pope Benedict XVI, Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

20. Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more

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21. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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22. The Abolition of Man

By: C.S. Lewis

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more

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23. The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Horse and his Boy is a stirring and dramatic fantasy story that finds a young boy named Shasta … read more

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"Do not dare not to dare."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"No one can teach riding so well as a horse"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!"

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

"Even a walk will get us somewhere sometime."

-C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)

24. The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Lifeis Helen Keller's account … read more

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25. Daughter Zion: Meditations on the Church's Marian Belief

By: Pope Benedict XVI

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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26. Sense and Sensibility

By: Jane Austen , Tony Tanner , Ros Ballaster

4.08

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141439662 'The more I know of the world, the more am I convi… read more

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"to hope was to expect"

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"She was stronger alone…"

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"Sense will always have attractions for me."

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

"I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself."

-Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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27. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

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"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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28. The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

By: John Mark Comer

4.53

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

"Who am I becoming?" That was the question nagging pastor and author John Mark Comer. Outwardly, he… read more

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  • religion
"Hurry is violence on the soul."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"In the cruciform kingdom, only the bad things die: image and status and bragging rights, all vanity."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"The point of a trellis isn’t to make the vines stand up straight in neat rows, but rather to attain a rich, deep glass of wine. It’s to create space for the vine to grow and bear fruit."

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

"The Hebrew word Shabbat means ‘to stop.’ But it can also be translated ‘to delight.’ It has this dual idea of stopping and also of joying in God and our lives in his world. The Sabbath is an entire d…"

-John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

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29. The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

By: Daniel Nayeri

3.96

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A new all-ages adventure tale from Printz Medal Winner, Daniel Nayeri This is the tale of an exciti… read more

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"He had betrayed God and wanted to hide from him, the way children hide, sitting in the open and covering their eyes."

-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

"To everyone we love we give a knife. The knife is shaped to pass through the bones of our chests like a key in a lock. Nothing else can cut our hearts so deeply."

-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

"Wouldn't it be nice if love was always around us like life and death? Wouldn't it be nice if love was inevitable like the other two? That you could be sure you'd find someone to love and love you in …"

-Daniel Nayeri, The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams

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30. Tradition: Concept and Claim

By: Josef Pieper

4.03

Format: 97 pages, Hardcover

Josef Pieper's Tradition: Concept and Claim analyzes tradition as an idea and as a living reality i… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
  • history
"And, of course, neither point of view should be confused with a conservatism that indiscriminately resists all innovation. Of course, this conservatism really exists, as everybody knows. More than th…"

-Josef Pieper, Tradition: Concept and Claim

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