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Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interp……続きを見る

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES. ____________ Why did the Spanish launch their Armada on England? How did Francis Drake counter the Spanish threat? And why were so many ships lost at sea?……続きを見る

The Latin Middle Ages were characterised by a vast array of different representations of nature. These conceptualisations of the natural world were developed according to the specific requirements o……続きを見る

Niccolo Machiavellis berühmtes Buch vom Fürsten ist eines der ersten der modernen politischen Philosophie. Er beschreibt darin Wege zur Erlangung und zum Erhalt politischer Macht. Aufgrund des darin……続きを見る

This classic book, now in a second, expanded edition, is an invitation to think along with major theologians and spiritual authors, men and women from the time of St Augustine to the end of the four……続きを見る

The Logic of Love in The Canterbury Tales argues that Geoffrey Chaucer’s magnum opus draws inventively on the resources of late medieval logic to conceive of love as an "insoluble." Philosophers of ……続きを見る

Il n’est probablement personne au monde de la part de qui ce ne serait point aujourd’hui de l’outrecuidance d’entreprendre soit une nouvelle histoire de Machiavel et de son temps, soit une nouvelle ……続きを見る

Central to Niccolò Machiavelli's writing is the argument that a successful state is one that prefers to lose with its own arms (arma propriis) than to win with the arms of others (arma alienis). Thi……続きを見る

This collected volume is inspired by the work of Edward Halper and is historically focused with contributions from leading scholars in Ancient and Medieval philosophy. Though its chapters cover a di……続きを見る

John Calvin lived in a divided world when past certainties were crumbling. Calvin claimed that his thought was completely based upon scripture, but he was mistaken. At several points in his thought ……続きを見る

The metaphysical and theological writings of John Duns Scotus (1265/6-1308)ーone of the most intriguing, albeit if now nigh-forgotten philosophers of the late Middle Agesーwere seminal in the emerge……続きを見る

Thomas Aquinas produced a voluminous body of work on moral theory, and much of that work is on virtue, particularly the status and value of the virtues as principles of virtuous acts, and the way in……続きを見る

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 t……続きを見る

This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy. It examines concepts and issues relating to logic and mathematics, as well as metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics. These to……続きを見る

Historical Imagination defends a phenomenological and hermeneutical account of historical knowledge. The book’s central questions are what is historical imagination, what is the relation between the……続きを見る

Molto noto al grande pubblico soprattutto per la sua tragica storia d'amore con Eloisa, Pietro Abelardo è stato in realtà un filosofo di prima grandezza nel Medioevo dell'XI e del XII secolo. Fu il ……続きを見る

In The Real Middle-Earth, explore the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-e……続きを見る

作者通過書中數十個預測命運的故事，從各個跌宕起伏、生老病死的奇異實例中，不同角度地驚驗著中華古老文化《易經》的理法，追根究源，探索出許多關於人與自然的規律，破譯著命運的密碼，闡釋著天人合一的宇宙定律……続きを見る

This new Companion to Aquinas features entirely new chapters written by internationally recognized experts in the field. It shows the power of Aquinas's philosophical thought and transmits the world……続きを見る

St. Gregory Palamas (ca. 1296–1357) is among the most well-known and celebrated theologians of late Byzantium. This book provides a comprehensive account of the essence-energies distinction across h……続きを見る

Byzantinists entered the study of emotion with Henry Maguire’s ground-breaking article on sorrow, published in 1977. Since then, classicists and western medievalists have developed new ways of under……続きを見る

In this book, Peter Ahrensdorf explores an overlooked but crucial role that Homer played in the thought of Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche concerning, notably, the relationship between politics, r……続きを見る

Platonic love is a concept that has profoundly shaped Western literature, philosophy and intellectual history for centuries. First developed in the Symposium and the Phaedrus, it was taken up by sub……続きを見る

Robert Grossteste (1175-1253), obispo de Lincoln y probablemente el primer canciller de la Universidad de Oxford, donde introdujo el pensamiento de Aristóteles y la idea griega de la Explicatio en e……続きを見る

As the final work by Ye Xiushan, one of the most famous philosophers and philosophy scholars in China, this two-volume title scrutinizes the historical development of both Chinese and Western philos……続きを見る

Pubblicata originariamente a fascicoli tra il 1904 e il 1915 con il generico titolo "La Filosofia", la presente opera costituiva l'avvio di un progetto più ampio sulla storia della filosofia italian……続きを見る

This is the first translation into English of Marsilio Ficino’s De Christiana religione, a text first written in Latin in 1474, the year after its author’s ordination in the Roman Catholic Church. O……続きを見る

Philosophy began hundreds of years BCE, and by now has grown to a scope and scale beyond acceptability by any single mind. But a sampling of episodes and issues can convey some idea of the nature of……続きを見る

William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific authors from Greek into Latin, and he played a decisive role in the acceptance of A……続きを見る

According to Avicenna, whatever exists, while it exists, exists of necessity. Not all beings, however, exist with the same kind of necessity. Instead, they exist either necessarily per se or necessa……続きを見る