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“jurgen overhoff”

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  • George Washington and Frederick the Great

    Parallel Lives

    by Jürgen Overhoff ...
    Translated by Patrick Baker ...
    How Frederick the Great and George Washington embody the competition between liberal democracy and authoritarianismBoth Frederick the Great and George Washington saw themselves as model rulers exemplifying different modes of enlightened governance. Frederick, absolute ruler of Prussia, styled himself as the embodiment of “enlightenment from above”; Washington, as the first president of the United ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hobbes's Theory of Will

    Ideological Reasons and Historical Circumstances

    by Jurgen Overhoff ...
    In Hobbes's Theory of the Will, Jurgen Overhoff reveals the religious, ethical, and political consequences of Thomas Hobbes's doctrine of volition. The author gracefully describes how Hobbes's thought was governed by assumptions based firmly in Galilean natural philosophy and orthodox Protestant theology. Overhoff also demonstrates how his subject used materialist eschatology and an absolutist ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Benjamin Franklin's Intellectual World

    by Carla Mulford, Simon P. Newman, Jurgen Overhoff, Jerry Weinberger, Lorraine Smith Pangle, Michael Zuckerman ...
    This volume attempts to throw fresh light on two areas of Benjamin Franklin’s intellectual world, namely: his self-fashioning and his political thought. It is an odd thing that for all of Franklin’s voluminous writings—a fantastically well-documented correspondence over many years, scientific treatises that made his name amongst the brightest minds of Europe, newspaper articles, satires, and of ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

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  • Introduction to Moral Theology

    by Romanus Cessario ...
    Series Book 1 - Catholic Moral Thought
    The comprehensive introduction to Catholic moral theology by the leading theologian and author of The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics .In Introduction to Moral Theology, Father Romanus Cessario, O.P. presents and expounds on the basic and central elements of Catholic moral theology written in the light of Veritatis splendor. Since its publication in 2001, this fir... ... Read more

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  • The Book of Memory

    A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture

    by Mary Carruthers ...
    Series Book 70 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Mary Carruthers's classic study of the training and uses of memory for a variety of purposes in European cultures during the Middle Ages has fundamentally changed the way scholars understand medieval culture. This fully revised and updated second edition considers afresh all the material and conclusions of the first. While responding to new directions in research inspired by the original, this new ... Read more

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  • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

    Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

    by John Boswell ...
    "What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content . . . but its revolutionary challenge to . . . Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions." — NewsweekJohn Boswell's National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay ... Read more

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  • Faith in a Hard Ground

    Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics by G.E.M. Anscombe

    by G.E.M. Anscombe ...
    Series Book 11 - St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs
    Elizabeth Anscombe’s forthright philosophy speaks directly to many religious and ethical issues of current concern.This collection of her essays forms a companion volume to the critically acclaimed Human Life, Action and Ethics, published in 2005. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius

    Edited by Stuart Gillespie, Philip Hardie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge ... Read more

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  • Generations of Feeling

    A History of Emotions, 600–1700

    by Barbara H. Rosenwein ...
    Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their ... Read more

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  • An Introduction To Moral Theology, 2nd Edition

    by William May ...
    Faith & MoralsHere - carefully documented, footnoted, and indexed - is not only what the Church teaches but also why it is obligated to do so. And, why its members are obligated to examine and to apply that teaching.This updated and expanded edition of a text long trusted and widely used in colleges, universities, and seminaries (as well as in high schools and parish religious-education programs), ... Read more

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  • Enchanted Europe:Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750

    Superstition, Reason, and Religion 1250-1750

    by Euan Cameron ...
    Since the dawn of history people have used charms and spells to try to control their environment, and forms of divination to try to foresee the otherwise unpredictable chances of life. Many of these techniques were called 'superstitious' by educated elites.For centuries religious believers used 'superstition' as a term of abuse to denounce another religion that they thought inferior, or to ... Read more

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