Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper and The Port

Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper and The Port
Answer the questions in an essay. The questions will come from the two books below. There will be two questions for The Portable Thoreau and five questions for Leisure: The Basic of Culture. When you cite please cite with the page number from the books.
Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper. Ignatius Press
• "The Philosophical Act," Ch. I
• "Leisure the Basis of Culture," Ch. I and II
1. "What point does Pieper want to make with his story of the youthful Apollodoros?
2. "What do you think of his view that philosophy (and not only philosophy) makes a "disturbance"?"
3. "Does Pieper have a valid point about leisure or is he being unrealistic? Are our lives basically all right even if we have no time for contemplation? Isn’t leisure for video games, TV, movies, or surfing the Net?"
4. "Does Pieper have a point about the liberal and servile arts? Does American education tend to be mostly career-oriented, such that the contemplative dimension is glossed over?"
5. "Do you see any relation between the Pilgrims and the "stranger" referred to in the Plato quotation under "Perspective" above?"

The Portable Thoreau edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics
• Introduction to Walden, pp. 197-198
• "Economy"
• “Civil Disobedience”
1. "What do you think of Thoreau’s discussion of life and economics?" This general question is also broken down into smaller parts to facilitate your analysis, e.g., "What is the ‘opportunity cost’ of your life?" and "How adequate is the language of economics for judging our significant social relationships?" (Here I paraphrase.) Please address all parts of these questions.
2. "With careful citations from Thoreau (he has a lot of argument in the text), discuss his position as it might apply to more recent situations. You may pick wars or some other issue of concern. If you are in agreement with Thoreau, how do you avoid advocating a lawless society that would be worse than what we’ve got? If you oppose him, how do you square this with our own American history which from Plymouth on has at times engaged in civil disobedience?"

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