https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Pieper
"He who wishes to know and to do the good must turn his gaze upon the objective world of being. No)
upon his own “ideas,” not upon his “conscience,
Mot L_upon. “values,”) not upon arbitrarily. established
“ideals” and ‘ ‘models.” He must turn away from his
own act and fix his eyes upon reality.
“Reality” means two things. This twofold mean-
ing
1s expressed by the two Latin words &
Gealis)and
factualis;ythe one is derived from res—thing, che other
from actus — action.
CRes)is everything that i is “presented” to our sense
perception or our intellectual cognition; all that has
being independently oh our ‘thinking. ‘ ‘Real” in this
‘sense IS whatever | is:
is “opposed” to us
nal meaning
of th
to us. Here the origi-
ning of the eine ‘object” is revealed and
confirmed. \Not-
(but its being
t-real)is that which is merely thought
thou ior is also something real); scho-
lastic philosophy gave it the name ens_rationts, =x
thing of thought. “ Reality (in the sense of realis) is rthe whole of being) which 1 iS independent of thought." (p.5)
-Josef Pieper, Reality And The Good, Henry Regnery Company 1967 (1949 pour la première édition allemande), 120 pages.
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-Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues,
"He who wishes to know and to do the good must turn his gaze upon the objective world of being. No)
upon his own “ideas,” not upon his “conscience,
Mot L_upon. “values,”) not upon arbitrarily. established
“ideals” and ‘ ‘models.” He must turn away from his
own act and fix his eyes upon reality.
“Reality” means two things. This twofold mean-
ing
1s expressed by the two Latin words &
Gealis)and
factualis;ythe one is derived from res—thing, che other
from actus — action.
CRes)is everything that i is “presented” to our sense
perception or our intellectual cognition; all that has
being independently oh our ‘thinking. ‘ ‘Real” in this
‘sense IS whatever | is:
is “opposed” to us
nal meaning
of th
to us. Here the origi-
ning of the eine ‘object” is revealed and
confirmed. \Not-
(but its being
t-real)is that which is merely thought
thou ior is also something real); scho-
lastic philosophy gave it the name ens_rationts, =x
thing of thought. “ Reality (in the sense of realis) is rthe whole of being) which 1 iS independent of thought." (p.5)
-Josef Pieper, Reality And The Good, Henry Regnery Company 1967 (1949 pour la première édition allemande), 120 pages.
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-Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues,