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  • Opera as Art

    Philosophical Sketches

    by Paul Thom ...
    In Opera as Art: Philosophical Sketches, Paul Thom argues for opera as an art, standing alongside other artforms that employ visual and sonic media to embody the great themes of human life. Thom contends that in great operatic art, the narrative and expressive content collaborate with the work's aesthetic qualities towards achieving this aim. This argument can be extended to modern operatic ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Rules of Logic

    by Najm al-Dīn al-Kātibī, Tony Street ...
    Series Book 110 - Library of Arabic Literature
    A classic textbook on the study of logicIn the Muslim East, logic was an integral part of the syllabus of schools and found to be especially helpful for legal studies. It was in this milieu that The Rules of Logic was composed by Najm al-Dīn al- Kātibī, a scholar of the Shāfiʿī school of law.The Rules of Logic is the most widely read introduction to logic in the Arabic-speaking world. It has ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Antipodean Philosopher

    Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, Volume 1

    by John Bigelow, Raymond D. Bradley, Andrew Brennan, James Franklin, Karen Green, Russell Grigg, Matthew Sharpe, Jeanette Kennett, Neil Levy, Gary Malinas, Chris Mortensen, Robert Nola, Charles R. Pidgen, Val Plumwood, Greg Restall, Paul Thom, Paul Patton, Jack Reynolds, Michelle Boulous Walker, Tony Coady, Peter Forrest, Catriona Mackenzie, Graham Priest ...
    Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions Australasian philosophers have made to their discipline, a series of public talks by leading ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Medieval Modal Systems

    Problems and Concepts

    by Paul Thom ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy
    This book explores noteworthy approaches to modal syllogistic adopted by medieval logicians including Abélard, Albert the Great, Avicenna, Averröes, Jean Buridan, Richard Campsall, Robert Kilwardby, and William of Ockham. The book situates these approaches in relation to Aristotle's discussion in the Prior and Posterior Analytics, and other parts of the Organon, but also in relation to the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Making Sense

    A Theory of Interpretation

    by Paul Thom ...
    Critics and artists (including performing artists) claim the title of 'interpreter' for themselves. Scientists do not so readily describe themselves in this way. But is the formulation of explanatory hypotheses in science so different from the interpretive work of artists? Making Sense recognizes that whenever interpretation occurs there may be a plurality of competing successful interpretations. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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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

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  • Deductive Logic

    by St. George Stock ...
    Philosophy by a professor at Oxford, first published in 1888. ... 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

  • Ontology

    by Peter Coffey ...
    It is hoped that the present volume will supply a want that is really felt by students of philosophy in our universities - the want of an English text-book on General Metaphysics from the Scholastic standpoint. An important introduction to the study of Ontology. ... Read more

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  • Spinoza and the Stoics

    by Jon Miller ...
    For many years, philosophers and other scholars have commented on the remarkable similarity between Spinoza and the Stoics, with some even going so far as to speak of 'Spinoza the Stoic'. Until now, however, no one has systematically examined the relationship between the two systems. In Spinoza and the Stoics Jon Miller takes on this task, showing how key elements of Spinoza's metaphysics, ... Read more

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