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  • Summa Contra Gentiles

    Book One: God

    by St. Thomas Aquinas ...
    Translated by Anton C. Pegis ...
    Book One of the Summa Contra Gentiles series studies God's existence, nature, and substance, his perfect actuality, the autonomy of his knowledge, the independence of his will, the perfection of his life, and the generosity of his love.The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work ... Read more

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    by Étienne de La Boétie ...
    Étienne de La Boétie (November 1, 1530 August 18, 1563) was a French judge, writer, anarchist, and political philosopher often credited with founding modern political philosophy in France. La Boétie was also a distinguished poet and humanist, translating Xenophon and Plutarch. Though he only lived a short life, his friendship with eminent essayist Michel de Montaigne helped immortalize him through ... Read more

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  • Medieval Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Marenbon ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    For many of us, the term 'medieval philosophy' conjures up the figure of Thomas Aquinas, and is closely intertwined with religion. In this Very Short Introduction John Marenbon shows how medieval philosophy had a far broader reach than the thirteenth and fourteenth-century universities of Christian Europe, and is instead one of the most exciting and diversified periods in the history of thought. ... Read more

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  • Ideas of Power in the Late Middle Ages, 1296–1417

    by Joseph Canning ...
    Through a focused and systematic examination of late medieval scholastic writers - theologians, philosophers and jurists - Joseph Canning explores how ideas about power and legitimate authority were developed over the 'long fourteenth century'. The author provides a new model for understanding late medieval political thought, taking full account of the intensive engagement with political reality ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Women's Rights in Medieval History- Children's Medieval History Books

    by Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that for the longest time women were considered inferior to men? If you would review your history books, you will notice the great difference in status, rank and role in society. In this book, let's take a look at the women's rights during the medieval times. Do you think women were treated fairly then? Why or why not? ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Education of the Human Race (Illustrated Edition)

    by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ...
    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 15 February 1781) was a German writer, philosopher, dramatist, publicist, and art critic, and one of the most outstanding representatives of the Enlightenment era. His plays and theoretical writings substantially influenced the development of German literature. He is widely considered by theatre historians to be the first dramaturg. Lessing was a poet, ... Read more

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  • The Scientific Work of René Descartes

    1596-1650

    by J. F. Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Rene Descartes
    When originally published in 1952, this book filled a gap in the history of philosophy and science and remains an important work today, because it puts the main mathematical and physical discoveries of Descartes in an accessible form, for the benefit of English readers. Descartes is acknowledged to be the founder of modern mathematics, through his invention of analytical geometry and this volume ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Dark Side of Diderot / Le Diderot des ombres

    Edited by James Hanrahan, Síofra Pierse ...
    Series Book 34 - French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    This collection of essays investigates the darker aspects of Diderot, writer, art critic, philosopher and encyclopédiste. The chapters focus on the schism between positive images of the Enlightenment and an undercurrent of disorder, transgression and clandestine intellectual and social practices. Diderot’s role in this fissure is critically scrutinised through an analysis of the interface between ... Read more

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  • The Demiurge in Ancient Thought

    Secondary Gods and Divine Mediators

    by Carl Séan O'Brien ...
    How was the world generated and how does matter continue to be ordered so that the world can continue functioning? Questions like these have existed as long as humanity has been capable of rational thought. In antiquity, Plato's Timaeus introduced the concept of the Demiurge, or Craftsman-god, to answer them. This lucid and wide-ranging book argues that the concept of the Demiurge was highly ... Read more

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  • Aquinas’s Philosophical Commentary on the Ethics

    A Historical Perspective

    by J.C. Doig ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Is Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum an interpretation of Aristotle based on `principles of Christian ethics'? Or do we have in that work a presentation of the foundation of Aquinas's moral philosophy? Professor Doig answers these questions through an examination of the historical context within which the Sententia was composed.In Chapters 1-2, the work's role as a corrective of earlier ... Read more

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  • Humanism and Embodiment

    From Cause and Effect to Secularism

    by Susan E. Babbitt ...
    A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that disembodied reason, not religion, should be the target of secularists promoting freedom of enquiry and human community.Susan Babbitt's original study presents humanism as a meta-ethical view, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Galileo

    Edited by Peter Machamer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of ... Read more

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