Medieval Western philosophy

Once Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustine's theory of time and embodiment.

A new translation of Pico della Mirandola''s most famous work, with extensive notes and commentary.

First published in 1964, Renaissance & Seventeenth - Century Studies contains essays which fall into two groups.

Sixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism.

The nature and properties of angels occupied a prominent place in medieval philosophical inquiry.

Avicenna (Ibn Sina) greatly influenced later medieval thinking about the earth and the cosmos, not only in his own civilization, but also in Hebrew and Latin cultures.

The Philosophy of Religion is one result of the Early Modern Reformation movements, as competing theologies purported truth claims which were equal in strength and different in contents.

Published in London in 1584, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast is Giordano Bruno's first work of moral philosophy.

This volume, first published in 2003, spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and into the fourteenth century.

Recent research in the humanities and social sciences suggests that individuals who understand themselves as belonging to something greater than the self-a family, community, or religious or spiritual group-often feel happier, have a deeper sense of purpose or meaning in their lives, and have overall better life outcomes than those who do not.

Thomas Williams presents the most extensive collection of John Duns Scotus's work on ethics and moral psychology available in English.

Like any other group of philosophers, scholastic thinkers from the Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts.

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This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.

A new interpretation of the Essais, situating Montaigne''s project of self-study in the context of a broader commitment to liberty.

Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, Experimental Selves argues that 'person,' as early moderns understood this concept, was an 'experimental' phenomenon-at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.

This volume, originally published in 1990, delineates the transition Descartes effects from a prevalent medieval conception of understanding to a modern conception of it.

This book features 20 essays that explore how Latin medieval philosophers and theologians from Anselm to Buridan conceived of habitus, as well as detailed studies of the use of the concept by Augustine and of the reception of the medieval doctrines of habitus in Suarez and Descartes.

This introduction to philosophy in the Latin West between 1150 and 1350 combines an historical approach, which concentrates on the sources, forms and backgrounds of the medieval works, with philosophical analysis of thirteenth and fourteenth-century writing in terms comprehensible to a modern reader.

A confluence of scholarly interest has resulted in a revival of Thomistic scholarship across the world.

Moses Maimonides-a proud heir to the Andalusian tradition of Aristotelian philosophy-crafted a bold and original philosophical interpretation of Torah and Judaism.

This book discusses Aquinas''s reception of Aristotle''s work, exploring how Aquinas adopts, corrects or transforms key themes from Aristotle''s ethics.

Originally published in 1967 Medieval Minds looks at the Middle Ages as a period with changing attitudes towards mental health and its treatment.

Sten Ebbesen has contributed many works in the field of ancient and medieval philosophy over many decades of dedicated research.

Ziel des Dialogs Idiota de mente (1450) ist die Zusammenführung der aristotelischen Bestimmung des Intellekts als Formprinzip des Lebens mit der platonisch-augustinischen Idee von der Unsterblichkeit der Seele.

This book takes readers on a philosophical discovery of a forgotten treasure, one born in the 14th century but which appears to belong to the 21st.

This volume features essays that explore the insights of the 14th-century Parisian nominalist philosopher, John Buridan.

Annotated translation of a key text in the history of medical and philosophical thinking about the human body.

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Emery Bigot's life spans the most brilliant years of seventeenth-century France.

The most popularly read, adapted, anthologized, and incorporated primer on sociology ever written for modern readers Acclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L.

This sourcebook explores how the Middle Ages dealt with questions related to the mental life of creatures great and small.

The final volume to be published in the acclaimed Routledge History of Philosophy series provides an authoritative and comprehensive survey and analysis of the key areas of late Greek and early Christian Philosophy.

A 2002 edition of Adam Smith''s Theory of Moral Sentiments, an important text in the history of moral and political thought.

This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas though written in the thirteenth century have much to offer the human mind and the relationship between intellect and will, body and soul.

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This book collects 15 papers on the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and founder of Neoplatonism, Plotinus (d.

Die Destruktion der rationalen Psychologie als Doktrin ist, dem gängigen Urteil nach, das Verdienst von David Humes Essay Of the Immortality of the Soul und Immanuel Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft.

In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture.

Without denying the real importance of the more 'traditional' tasks of a historian of ideas or scholar of literature - the edition of a text and research into its sources and influence - Professor Flint's objective has been to look sideways from the texts, so into the society to which their authors belonged.