Medieval Western philosophy

Originally published in 1940, this book provides a thorough discussion of Rene Descartes philosophy of metaphysics, examining the three major points of the mind and body, freedom of the will and religion and science.

English Women's Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood uncovers a tradition of women's utopianism that extends back to medieval women's monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More.

Compact but singularly well thought out material of a theological, logical, poetic as well as philosophical nature.

Purpose Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed is pervaded by a p- manent tension regarding the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God by a created intellect, which lies at the roots of the 13th century controversy over Maimonides' writings.

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.

This book contains the most explicit formulation of Hegel''s enduringly influential dialectical method and of the categorical system underlying his thought.

Wisdom, humor, and dark observations by the founder of the Church of Satan.

The sequel to Duane Elgin's bestselling classic Voluntary Simplicity, which changed the lives of thousands and was called the "e;bible"e; of the simplicity movement by the Wall Street Journal, Promise Ahead looks beneath the headlines to reveal the deeper currents now changing our lives.

This is an updated edition of John Cottingham''s acclaimed translation of Descartes''s philosophical masterpiece, including an abridgement of Descartes''s Objections and Replies.

Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition.

Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young.

Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory.

This book offers an original contribution to debates about the problem of evil and the existence of God.

'This sentence is false' - is that true?

Die Summa des Nikolaus von Strassburg, früher auch Summa philosophiae genannt, wurde am Anfang dieses Jahrhunderts von Martin Grabmann wiederentdeckt.

Es wird gesagt, dass eine Handlung besser oder schlechter sei als eine andere.

Das Werk des Cusanus gilt als Synthese mittelalterlicher Weisheit und gedanklicher Grundlegung der großen Systeme der beginnenden Renaissance und der neueren Zeit.

Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking.

This bold new work discusses truth, and the value of a metaphysical approach to truth, from philosophical and theological perspectives.

Agonistes comprises a collection of essays presented by his friends and colleagues to Denis O'Brien, former Directeur de recherche at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique, representing the full range of his scholarly interests in the field of ancient philosophy, from the Presocratics, through Plato, Aristotle and Hellenistic philosophy, to Plotinus and later Neoplatonism.

»Denn auch, wenn bisher die Grundsteine noch nicht gelegt sind, so sind doch das Holz und die Steine bereits vorhanden, nämlich die Kraft der Wissenschaften und der Sprachen; und ich werde sorgfältig erforschen, wie die übrigen Gebäude errichtet werden müssen, die für die Weisheit notwendig sind.

Responding to the recent upsurge of interest in Thomas Aquinas, this book goes straight to the heart of the contemporary debates about Thomism.

Examines the practical dilemmas, both moral and political, of peace time and war time as discussed by the Late Scholastics.

Das Werk des Cusanus gilt als Synthese mittelalterlicher Weisheit und gedanklicher Grundlegung der großen Systeme der beginnenden Renaissance und der neueren Zeit.

The concluding volume of Francis Oakley's authoritative trilogy moves on to engage the political thinkers of the later Middle Ages, Renaissance, Age of Reformation and religious wars, and the era that produced the Divine Right Theory of Kingship.

This book, which honours the career of a distinguished scholar, contains essays dealing with important problems in Plato, the Platonic tradition, and the texts and transmission of Plato and later Platonic writers.

Desmond M.

This volume presents fourteen of William E.

In this innovative volume contemporary philosophers respond to classic works of Jewish philosophy.

Kann die menschliche Vernunft theologische Wahrheiten mit Evidenz erkennen?

This innovative volume investigates the meaning of 'something' in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy.

Originally published in 1992 The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy is an annotated bibliography looking at the scholarship generated by the translations of the works of Boethius.

In the De potentia, Thomas Aquinas runs a series of disputations on the power of God.