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  • Aquinas

    An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker

    by F. Copleston ...
    Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology work together in harmony), Aquinas was remarkable for the way in which he used and developed this legacy of ancient thought—an achievement which led ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

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  • A New History of Western Philosophy

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Ancient Philosophy

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 1

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the birth of philosophy and its remarkable flourishing in the ancient Mediterranean world. This is the first of four volumes in which he will unfold a magisterial new history of Western philosophy. Specially written for a broad popular readership, but serious and deep enough to offer a genuine understanding of the great philosophers, Kenny's lucid ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings

    by René Descartes ...
    Translated by Desmond M. Clarke ...
    Of all the works of the man claimed by many as the father of modern philosophy, the MEDITATIONS, first published in 1641, must surely be Rene Descartes' masterpiece. This volume consists of not only a new translation of the original Latin text and the expanded objections and replies, but also includes selected correspondence and other metaphysical writings from the period 1641-49. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics

    Edited by Brad Inwood ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • From Plato to Wittgenstein

    Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe

    by G.E.M. Anscombe ...
    Series Book 18 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    In 2005 St Andrews Studies published a volume of essays by Anscombe entitled Human Life, Action and Ethics, followed in 2008 by a second with the title Faith in a Hard Ground. Both books were highly praised. This third volume brings essays on the thought of historical philosophers in which Anscombe engages directly with their ideas and arguments. Many are published here for the first time and the ... Read more

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  • Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy

    by Martin Heidegger ...
    Translated by Robert D. Metcalf, Mark B. Tanzer ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    This volume presents Heidegger's 1924 Marburg lectures which lay the intellectual groundwork for his magnum opus, Being and Time.Here are the seeds of the ideas that would become Heidegger's unique and highly influential phenomenology. Heidegger interprets Aristotle's Rhetoric and looks closely at the Greek notion of pathos. These lectures offer special insight into the development of his concepts ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Concerning Being and Essence

    by St. Thomas Aquinas ...
    This early work of philosophy is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains metaphysical ideas of being and essence by influential philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in philosophy. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spinoza: Ethics

    Proved in Geometrical Order

    Edited by Matthew J. Kisner ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most significant texts of the early modern period, important to history, philosophy, Jewish studies and religious studies. It had a major influence on Enlightenment thinkers and the development of the modern world. In Ethics, Spinoza addresses the most fundamental perennial philosophical questions concerning the nature of God, human beings and a good life. His ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Principles of Cartesian Philosophy

    by Baruch Spinoza, Dagobert D. Runes ...
    Translated by Harry E. Wedeck ...
    This book provides depth and insight into the philosophical doctrine of Rene Descartes, and compares it to the metaphysics of Spinoza himself. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy

    Edited by David Sedley ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philosophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Plato: A Guide for the Perplexed

    by Professor Gerald A. Press ...
    Series series Guides for the Perplexed
    It is widely agreed that Plato laid the foundations for the whole history of western thought and, well over 2000 years later, his work is still studied by every student of philosophy. Yet his thought and writings continue to evoke perplexity in readers; and perplexity (aporia) is itself a characteristic of many of his writings, a recurrent motif of his thought, and apparently an important stage ... Read more

    $42.99 USD