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  • The Right Use of Moral Philosophy

    by Pierre de la Place ...
    The early French reformer Pierre de la Place (ca. 1520-1572) is usually remembered more for his martyrdom than for his life or work. La Place was, however, a significant figure in the French reform movement who made contributions through both civil service and writing. Appearing here in English for the first time, his Du droict usage de la philosophie morale avec la doctrine chrestienne is an ... Read more

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  • The Four Cardinal Virtues

    Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge

    by Josef Pieper ...
    In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues. ... Read more

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  • The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas

    by Thomas Aquinas ...
    Originally published in The Hafner Library of Classics in 1953, The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas provides important insights into the human side of one of the most influential medieval philosophers. St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1226–1274) is recognized for having synthesized Christian theology with Aristotelian metaphysics, and for his spirited philosophical defense of Christianity that was ... Read more

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  • An Apology for Raymond Sebond

    by Michel Montaigne, M. A. Screech ...
    Translated by M. A. Screech ...
    An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of personal melancholy that followed the death of Montaigne's own father in 1568, and explores contemporary Christianity in prose that is ... Read more

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  • The Essence & Topicality of Thomism

    by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. ...
    Fr. Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., explains why Thomism is the solution to the present crisis of Modernism in the Church. The problem: The indications of the current crisis in the Church have “been not of a crisis of faith, but of a very grave malady of the intellect, which conducts itself on the tracks of liberal Protestantism and through relativism to absolute skepticism.” Fr. Garrigou ... Read more

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  • Enchiridion

    by Epictetus ...
    Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.The things in our control are by nature free, unrestrained, unhindered; but those not in our control are weak, slavish, ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Craft of Memory

    An Anthology of Texts and Pictures

    Edited by Mary Carruthers, Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Material Texts
    In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Integralism

    A Manual of Political Philosophy

    by Alan Fimister, Thomas Crean ...
    Integralism is the application to the temporal, political order of the full implications of the revelation of man's supernatural end in Christ and of the divinely established means by which it is to be attained. These implications are identified by means of the philosophia perennis exemplified in the fundamental principles of St Thomas Aquinas. Since the first principle in moral philosophy is the ... Read more

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  • Pythagoras

    His Life and Teaching, a Compendium of Classical Sources

    by Thomas Stanley ...
    The timeless brilliance of this exhaustive survey of the best classical writers of antiquity on Pythagoras was first published in 1687 in Thomas Stanley’s massive tome, The History of Philosophy. It remains as contemporary today as it was over three hundred years ago.The text of the 1687 book has been reset and modernized to make it more accessible to the modern reader. Spelling has been ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Stoic Sage

    The Early Stoics on Wisdom, Sagehood and Socrates

    by René Brouwer ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
    After Plato and Aristotle, the Stoics, from the third century BCE onwards, developed the third great classical conception of wisdom. This book offers a reconstruction of this pivotal notion in Stoicism, starting out from the two extant Stoic definitions, 'knowledge of human and divine matters' and 'fitting expertise'. It focuses not only on the question of what they understood by wisdom, but also ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Progress

    by J. B. Bury ...
    We may believe in the doctrine of Progress or we may not, but in either case it is a matter of interest to examine the origins and trace the history of what is now, even should it ultimately prove to be no more than an idolum saeculi, the animating and controlling idea of western civilisation. For the earthly Progress of humanity is the general test to which social aims and theories are submitted ... Read more

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  • Confessions of the Flesh

    The History of Sexuality, Volume 4

    by Michel Foucault ...
    Translated by Robert Hurley ...
    The fourth and final volume in Michel Foucault’s acclaimed History of Sexuality, completed just before his death in 1984 and finally available to the publicOne of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault made an indelible impact on Western thought. The first three volumes in his History of Sexuality—which trace cultural and intellectual notions of sexuality, arguing ... Read more

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