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  • The Specification of Human Actions in St Thomas Aquinas

    by Joseph Pilsner ...
    Series series Oxford Theological Monographs
    Thomas Aquinas believed that human actions have species, such as theft or almsgiving. A problem arises, however, concerning his teaching on how such moral kinds are determined. Aquinas uses five different terms - end, object, matter, circumstance, and motive - to identify what gives species to human actions. Although similarities in meaning can be discerned between certain of these terms, apparent ... Read more

    $187.19 USD

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    by David Edmonds, Nigel Warburton ...
    Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important thinkers in history. From the ancient classics of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the groundbreaking modern thought of Wittgenstein, Rawls, and ... Read more

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  • Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought

    From Gratian to Aquinas

    by M. V. Dougherty ...
    The history of moral dilemma theory often ignores the medieval period, overlooking the sophisticated theorizing by several thinkers who debated the existence of moral dilemmas from 1150 to 1450. In this book Michael V. Dougherty offers a rich and fascinating overview of the debates which were pursued by medieval philosophers, theologians and canon lawyers, illustrating his discussion with a ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire

    Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism

    by Sarah Pessin ...
    Drawing on Arabic passages from Ibn Gabirol's original Fons Vitae text, and highlighting philosophical insights from his Hebrew poetry, Sarah Pessin develops a 'theology of desire' at the heart of Ibn Gabirol's eleventh-century cosmo-ontology. She challenges centuries of received scholarship on his work, including his so-called Doctrine of Divine Will. Pessin rejects voluntarist readings of the ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • 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

  • The Sublime

    From Antiquity to the Present

    Edited by Timothy M. Costelloe ...
    This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicited by phenomena that move viewers by transcending and overwhelming them. The book consists of an editor's introduction and fifteen chapters written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Part One examines philosophical approaches advanced ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Pontano’s Virtues

    Aristotelian Moral and Political Thought in the Renaissance

    by Matthias Roick ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition
    First secretary to the Aragonese kings of Naples, Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503) was a key figure of the Italian Renaissance. A poet and a philosopher of high repute, Pontano's works offer a reflection on the achievements of fifteenth-century humanism and address major themes of early modern moral and political thought.Taking his defining inspiration from Aristotle, Pontano wrote on topics such as ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Thomas Aquinas

    Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Brian Davies ...
    The work of Thomas Aquinas has always enjoyed a privileged position as a pillar of Catholic theology, but for centuries his standing among western philosophers was less sure. Today, Aquinas's work is recognized as a cornerstone of the western philosophical tradition. This book offers a full-scale introduction to Aquinas's philosophy. Brian Davies has collected in one volume the best recent essays ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • 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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  • Where is Medieval Philosophy going?

    Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 13 February 2014

    by Alain de Libera ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Where is medieval philosophy going? It is going to where philosophy is. And it is there where philosophy is going. It became medieval once the Middle Ages were over. It was only philosophy when the Middle Ages were still saeculum modernorum, the “century of the Moderns”, for those living in it. Today, it is going there where she or he who wants to recount, that is, to relate its history, must go. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Aquinas’ Proofs for God’s Existence

    St. Thomas Aquinas on: “The Per Accidens Necessarily Implies the Per Se”

    by D. Bonnette ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The purpose of this study is to investigate the legitimacy of the principle, "The per accidens necessarily implies the per se," as it is found in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. Special emphasis will be placed upon the function of this principle in the proofs for God's existence. The relevance of the principle in this latter context can be seen at once when it is observed that it is the key to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Prophecy

    The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy

    by Howard Kreisel ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How can a human being attain the Word of God? In what manner does God, when conceived as eternal and transcendent, address corporeal, transitory creatures? What happens to God's divine Truth when it is beheld by minds limited in their power to apprehend, and influenced by ... Read more

    $188.09 USD