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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

    $152.99 USD

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  • Utopia (Hero Classics)

    by Thomas More ...
    Part of the Hero Classics seriesUtopia is a distant island where the inhabitants are thriving and justice and reason prevail, in contrast to the realities of sixteenth-century Europe, where greed, superstition and unenlightened tradition reign. Using the framework of a traveller’s account to a fictional land, Thomas More created an ingenious treatise which envisioned a more humanist approach to ... Read more

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  • Thus Spake Zarathustra

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Thus Spake Zarathustra, is a work of philosophical fiction written by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche between 1883 and 1885. Scholars have argued that "the worst possible way to understand Zarathustra is as a teacher of doctrines". Nonetheless Thus Spake Zarathustra "has contributed most to the public perception of Nietzsche as philosopher – namely, as the teacher of the 'doctrines' of the ... Read more

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  • Schopenhauer

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher Janaway ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Schopenhauer is the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will - a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind ... Read more

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  • The History of Medieval Philosophy

    Selected Figures of Scholastic Tradition I

    by Ladislav Tkáčik ...
    Series Book 8 - Uni Slovakia
    Calling an epoch Middle Age already involves some sort of judgment. But Middle Ages represent a historic period, in which the identity was established, which was denied by the renaissance, modern world and which however is now being discovered again in its sense and beauty. It is a period in which a co-existence between faith and intellect, between ecclesiastical and profane culture was possible. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap

    The Story of Necessity

    Edited by Max Cresswell, Edwin Mares, Adriane Rini ...
    Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities (necessity and possibility) held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by M. V. Dougherty ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Thomas Aquinas's Disputed Questions on Evil is a careful and detailed analysis of the general topic of evil, including discussions on evil as privation, human free choice, the cause of moral evil, moral failure, and the so-called seven deadly sins. This collection of ten, specially commissioned new essays, the first book-length English-language study of Disputed Questions on Evil, examines the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The School of Franz Brentano

    Edited by L. Albertazzi, M. Libardi, R. Poli ...
    Series Book 52 - Nijhoff International Philosophy Series
    The central idea developed by the contributions to this book is that the split between analytic philosophy and phenomenology - perhaps the most impor tant schism in twentieth-century philosophy - resulted from a radicalization of reciprocal partialities. Both schools of thought share, in fact, the same cultural background and their same initial stimulus in the thought of Franz Brentano. And one ... Read more

    $260.09 USD

  • Dimensions of the Logical

    A Hermeneutic Inquiry

    by Friedrich Hogemann ...
    Drawing on the work of Georg Misch, this work seeks to give back to the Word its original fullness of meaning. Misch’s notion of a logic of life considers the Word in the plenitude of its great powers. The question of life leads the inquiries undertaken in this study via Misch’s anthropological conception on to the phenomenological ontology of Martin Heidegger and Josef Koenig’s investigation of ... Read more

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  • An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy

    Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers

    by Karen J. Warren, Therese Boos Dykeman, Eve Browning, Judith Chelius Stark, Jane Duran, Marilyn Fischer, Lois Frankel, Edward Fullbrook, Jo Ellen Jacobs, Vicki Harper0, Joy Laine1, Kate Lindemann2, Elizabeth K. Minnich3, Andrea Nye4, Margaret Simons5, Audun Solli6, Catherine Villanueva Gardner7, Mary Ellen Waithe8, Henry West9 ...
    Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is engaged in re-discovering the names, lives, texts, and perspectives of women philosophers from the 6th Century BCE to the present. Karen ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity

    Edited by Anna Marmodoro, Brian D. Prince ...
    Written by a group of leading scholars, this unique collection of essays investigates the views of both pagan and Christian philosophers on causation and the creation of the cosmos. Structured in two parts, the volume first looks at divine agency and how late antique thinkers, including the Stoics, Plotinus, Porphyry, Simplicius, Philoponus and Gregory of Nyssa, tackled questions such as: is the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics

    by Ladislav Tkáčik ...
    Series Book 7 - Uni Slovakia
    To be confronted with a text can lead us to open our own living world, to its expansion and saturation with something new or even with something else, something unpredictable. What then makes a human a human? Can philosophical hermeneutics say anything about that? It can! «Language is the real centre of a human being… The human is a real, as Aristotle used to say, being who has language» (Hans ... Read more

    $28.69 USD