Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All
No word in our language is more misunderstood than the word “heart.’ And almost no word is more important, for it refers to what is at the very center of our soul. We have mapped the outer world, in fact the whole universe, with amazing exactness . . . but we have neglected the world within. This new book by venerable Catholic thinker Peter Kreeft offers a map of that inner world, of the self.
 
In it, he takes up the mantle of Dietrich von Hildebrand and plumbs the depths of that most misunderstood (by the world) and overlooked (by philosophers and theologians) part of the human being.
 
In Wisdom of the Heart, Kreeft examines the two common understandings of the heart’s purpose and shows how they are not at odds, but rather different (and essential) facets:
 
Feeling and emotion: can reduce us to action without thinking, but also drives us to compassion, empathy, and gratitude
Love: An act of the will, designed so that we can follow Jesus’ commandment to love God and others
 
This book, therefore, is a psychological aid to understanding the philosophy behind St. John Paul’s “Theology of the Body” while exploring the three dimensions of persons: the will, the mind, and the emotions, and their three loves: the good, the true, and the beautiful.
 
A new masterwork by one of the foremost Catholic philosophers of our time, Wisdom of the Heart is essential reading for understanding ourselves, our God, and our relationship with him.
 
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Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All
No word in our language is more misunderstood than the word “heart.’ And almost no word is more important, for it refers to what is at the very center of our soul. We have mapped the outer world, in fact the whole universe, with amazing exactness . . . but we have neglected the world within. This new book by venerable Catholic thinker Peter Kreeft offers a map of that inner world, of the self.
 
In it, he takes up the mantle of Dietrich von Hildebrand and plumbs the depths of that most misunderstood (by the world) and overlooked (by philosophers and theologians) part of the human being.
 
In Wisdom of the Heart, Kreeft examines the two common understandings of the heart’s purpose and shows how they are not at odds, but rather different (and essential) facets:
 
Feeling and emotion: can reduce us to action without thinking, but also drives us to compassion, empathy, and gratitude
Love: An act of the will, designed so that we can follow Jesus’ commandment to love God and others
 
This book, therefore, is a psychological aid to understanding the philosophy behind St. John Paul’s “Theology of the Body” while exploring the three dimensions of persons: the will, the mind, and the emotions, and their three loves: the good, the true, and the beautiful.
 
A new masterwork by one of the foremost Catholic philosophers of our time, Wisdom of the Heart is essential reading for understanding ourselves, our God, and our relationship with him.
 
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Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All

Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All

by Peter Kreeft
Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All

Wisdom of the Heart: The Good, the True, and the Beautiful at the Center of Us All

by Peter Kreeft

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No word in our language is more misunderstood than the word “heart.’ And almost no word is more important, for it refers to what is at the very center of our soul. We have mapped the outer world, in fact the whole universe, with amazing exactness . . . but we have neglected the world within. This new book by venerable Catholic thinker Peter Kreeft offers a map of that inner world, of the self.
 
In it, he takes up the mantle of Dietrich von Hildebrand and plumbs the depths of that most misunderstood (by the world) and overlooked (by philosophers and theologians) part of the human being.
 
In Wisdom of the Heart, Kreeft examines the two common understandings of the heart’s purpose and shows how they are not at odds, but rather different (and essential) facets:
 
Feeling and emotion: can reduce us to action without thinking, but also drives us to compassion, empathy, and gratitude
Love: An act of the will, designed so that we can follow Jesus’ commandment to love God and others
 
This book, therefore, is a psychological aid to understanding the philosophy behind St. John Paul’s “Theology of the Body” while exploring the three dimensions of persons: the will, the mind, and the emotions, and their three loves: the good, the true, and the beautiful.
 
A new masterwork by one of the foremost Catholic philosophers of our time, Wisdom of the Heart is essential reading for understanding ourselves, our God, and our relationship with him.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781505114416
Publisher: TAN Books
Publication date: 06/22/2020
Pages: 388
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Peter Kreeft is an internationally respected Chesterton expert, and has been a professor of philosophy at Boston College since 1965.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Our Heart Disease: Neglect 1

2 Our Brain Damage: Confusion 31

Part 1 The Heart's Hands (The Good)

3 Fourteen Kinds of Love 69

4 Bad Loves: Today's Seven Deadly Sins 95

5 The Soul's Circulatory System: Christianity as Nothing but Love 141

Part 2 The Heart's Head (The True)

6 The Epistemology of the Heart, "the Third Eye" 177

7 Silence: The Language of the Heart 203

8 Five Arguments from the Heart for God 223

Part 3 The Heart's Heartbeat (The Beautiful)

9 The Good, the True, and the Beautiful 275

10 Beauty 287

11 Joy 297

12 Ecstasy 313

13 Suffering 329

Conclusion 361

A Theological Appendix 367

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