Living the Truth: The Truth of All Things and Reality and the Good

This volume presents several illuminating treatises of Josef Pieper on Thomistic anthropology and on the principles of right human behavior based on anthropology. Living the Truth combines Piper’s books—Truth of All Things and Reality and the Good—into one volume. With his characteristic lucidity, Pieper shows how all reality is positioned between the mind of God and the mind of man, and is the basis for man’s unquenchable yearning and the measure of all man’s knowledge. He then develops the Thomistic position that reality is also the basis for the good and therefore the norm of conscience and ethical action.