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In 'Anima Poetæ' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the reader is immersed in a collection of essays and lectures that explore the poetic mind and the creative process. Through a combination of Coleridge's……続きを見る

Houston Stewart Chamberlains Buch 'Mensch und Gott' ist ein bedeutendes Werk, das sich mit der Thematik der religiösen Entwicklung des Menschen auseinandersetzt. Der Autor präsentiert eine tiefgründ……続きを見る

Housing the powers? What powers? Soul powers -- powers that shape the lives of human souls. They may be housed, and exercised, by those souls or by other agents. This book is about views on that sub……続きを見る

Nella Francia del xii secolo un teologo di fama europea, chierico della cattedrale di Parigi, incontra una giovane donna altrettanto celebre per cultura e intelligenza. L’innamoramento è tanto inevi……続きを見る

Peter Adamson explores the rich intellectual history of the Byzantine Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to the thinkers and movemen……続きを見る

This book offers a new reading of Aquinas’s views on faith. The author argues that the theological nature of faith is crucial to Aquinas’s thought, and that it gives rise to a particular and otherwi……続きを見る

The prescience of medieval English authors has long been a source of fascination to readers. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship draws attention to the ways that misinterpreted, p……続きを見る

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings provides the definitive anthology of early Christian texts from ca. 100 CE to ca. 650 CE. Its volumes reflect the cultural, intellectual, and lingui……続きを見る

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings provides the definitive anthology of early Christian texts from ca. 100 CE to ca. 650 CE. Its volumes reflect the cultural, intellectual, and lingui……続きを見る

¿Le preocupa su felicidad? ¿Siente inquietud por el porvenir? ¿Le llegan a angustiar los problemas cotidianos?Enfrentamos una época de grandes dificultades y cambios constantes. Nuestras maneras de ……続きを見る

Se trata de una historia clara y expuesta con rigor y sencillez, donde destaca una excelente línea argumentativa, muy ponderada en cuanto a la interpretación de los autores, sin dejarse llevar por p……続きを見る

Este volumen recoge las lecciones dictadas por el autor en las Gifford Lectures de 1931, en la Universidad de Aberdeen. A menudo se piensa que la Edad Media posee una literatura y un arte bien recon……続きを見る

"El Comentario a las Sentencias de Pedro Lombardo constituye la primera obra mayor de Tomás de Aquino fruto de su enseñanza como bachiller sentenciario al comenzar su primera estadía en París (1252)……続きを見る

The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries witnessed a rising interest in Arabic texts describing and explaining the rituals of the Coptic Church of Egypt. This book provides readers with an English tra……続きを見る

Averroes on Intellect provides a detailed analysis of the Muslim philosopher Averroes (Ibn Rushd)'s notorious unicity thesis -- the view that there is only one separate and eternal intellect for all……続きを見る

Anselm of Canterbury gave the first modal "ontological" argument for God's existence. Yet, despite its distinct originality, philosophers have mostly avoided the question of what modal concepts the ……続きを見る

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 first collection of essays devoted to the Arabic philosopher Averroes's brilliant Commentary on Plato's "Republic," which survived the medieval period only in Hebrew and Latin translations. The ……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

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Machiavelli’s use of Borgia is a puzzle for interpreters of The Prince. Those who denounced the scandalous ……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

In 'Der Begriff der Religion im System der Philosophie' untersucht Hermann Cohen die Rolle der Religion in der Philosophie. Der Text bietet eine detaillierte Analyse des Begriffs der Religion und se……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