Medieval Western philosophy

Outlining the distinctive elements of Christian ethics, Moral Choices is the standard text for college ethics courses.

Learn to leverage privilege.

God does not suggest, he commands that we do justice.

This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change.

This volume explores the connections between Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of natural law and contemporary social thought.

An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-AndalusAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst.

A much-maligned feature of ancient and medieval political thought is its tendency to appeal to nature to establish norms for human communities.

In honor of what would have been Clarence Jordan's one hundredth birthday and the seventieth anniversary of Koinonia Farm, the first Clarence Jordan Symposium convened in historic Sumter County, Georgia, in 2012, gathering theologians, historians, actors, and activists in civil rights, housing, agriculture, and fair-trade businesses to celebrate a remarkable individual and his continuing influence.

How you eat affects the planet--and everyone else on it.

An impassioned call for Christian churches to return to the values of service, love, and grace-and reject the twenty-first century gospel of material prosperity.

Ethics of Wars of Insurgency is my fifth study on "e;the ethics of war and peace.

With exceptionally clear analysis, James Fetzer dissects the philosophical issues underlying todays most contentious moral debates.

The Medieval History is very interesting, especially for kids, because it details the time that came after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

In stark contrast to the shrill and nasty interactions among many Christians regarding contentious LGBT issues, this book models a redemptive mode of engagement by featuring respectful conversations among deeply committed Christians who hold to diverging traditional and non-traditional views.

In today's multi-cultural and multi-religious world, evangelism is often viewed as scandalous, not only by those who are opposed to anything religious, but also by many Christians.

In the medieval ages, there were specific societal structures and classes that pretty much dictate how lives were lived.

We can make Jesus look very small if we are not careful.

In the Medieval times, the world looked different.

"e;I'm rich and I don't need a thing,"e; bragged the early Christians in the big city of Laodicea.

Learning history will never be boring with this educational book.

In The End of Captivity?

Because the Catholic Church, other Christian churches, and almost every national government permit exceptions to God's commandment that "e;you shall not kill,"e; Johannes Ude examines Catholic moral law to discern whether this commandment has absolute validity or may be modified so that in certain instances it is permissible to kill another human being.

Human hostility is not the narrative of a selected few.

The original recipients of the Letter of First Peter inhabited a radically different social context from our own.

Is it possible for orthodox, creedal Christianity to change its views on matters of sexuality and gender?

Hacia el año 1150, Hildegarda de Bingen reunió sus composiciones y formó con ellas un ciclo lírico completo al que llamó «Sinfonía de la armonía de las revelaciones celestiales», corpus que incluye la notación musical de la propia autora.

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was one of the luminaries of the Florentine Renaissance and the scholar responsible for the revival of Platonism.

Das Speculum universale des Radulfus Ardens gilt als der umfangreichste Entwurf einer theologischen Ethik im 12.

This comprehensive volume surveys an important but neglected period of Chinese intellectual history: Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism).

Ce livre numérique comprend des oeuvres majeures de Leibniz.

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

Das Speculum universale des Radulfus Ardens gilt als der umfangreichste Entwurf einer theologischen Ethik im 12.

One important task of metaphysics is to answer the question of what it is for an object to exist.

In Machines of the Mind, Katharine Breen proposes that medieval personifications should be understood neither as failed novelistic characters nor as instruments of heavy-handed didacticism.

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How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus?

This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations n persuasive communication through manipulation of symbols n and his huge (and cynical) impact on the American economic and political scene.

This book discusses the seminal role played by Edward Bernays, a nephew of Sigmund Freud, in the founding of American-style public relations , persuasive communication through manipulation of symbols , and his huge (and cynical) impact on the American economic and political scene.

A cutting-edge study of human nature in early Franciscan thought which illustrates its extensive use of Islamic and Jewish philosophy.

Jorge Luis Borges llegó a considerar 'La divina comedia' de Dante como un microcosmos del saber medieval.

Lo interesante de la presente investigación del medievalista Diego Alejandro Gracia Ortiz es que no se centra en los problemas sobre la pobreza y la política, sino que su foco de atención es la relación del ockhamismo con la universidad, una de las creaciones medievales de mayor resonancia en los tiempos medievales y postmedievales.

Se aborda en este volumen la revuelta realizada por Eriúgena (800-877), obstinado filósofo irlandés de la Edad Media que, apoyándose en la defensa y ejercicio de la razón frente a toda autoridad humana, interpretó la Escritura y sostuvo que el infierno no era sino un estado de consciencia; que la vida alcanza incluso a los seres que solemos pensar como inanimados; que el nombre más apropiado con que debemos llamar a Dios es "Nada"; que la Nada está más allá de todo y escapa al esfuerzo del pensamiento; y que el ser humano no es sino imagen de esa Nada.

The attribution of the Speculum Astronomiae to Albertus Magnus became a controversial issue only recently, when the great neo-Thomist historian Pierre Mandonnet suggested -- without any antecedents -- that the author was Roger Bacon rather than Albert.

Scepticism in the History of Philosophy is a dialogue between leading Latin American and North American scholars concerned with the history of scepticism from ancient times to present day philosophy.

Abelard is one of the foremost protagonists of the "e;twelfth-century Renaissance"e;.

On the most basic level, the articles brought together in the present volume aim to contribute to the charting of the (often subtle) links between the medieval and early modern periods in the fields of metaphysics, philosophical theology, and modal theory.

The Thomistic tradition takes it name from the thirteenth-century religious thinker and saint who is its source and inspiration: the Dominican Friar Thomas 1 Aquinas.

Is Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum an interpretation of Aristotle based on `principles of Christian ethics'?