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The Physical System of St. Thomas is a metaphysical text by a Jesuit discussing the philosophical underpinnings of the Catholic faith. As the author explains, it is to the study of philosophy and n……続きを見る

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) is one of the most important figures of the early modern era. His plan for scientific reform played a central role in the birth of the new science. The essays in this volum……続きを見る

Napoleon, Mussolini, Voltaire, even Mafia man John Gotti – they all read Machiavelli’s The Prince. Philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume and Adam Smith were influenced by it. And th……続きを見る

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Aquinas in just one hour. Thomas Aquinas remains the unacknowledged maestro of Scholasticism – the static, cumulative philoso……続きを見る

A comprehensive and accessible account of the life and thought of Judaism's most celebrated philosopher Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a tow……続きを見る

Philosophers of the Middle Ages endeavored to reconcile two seemingly incompatible concepts: religion and reason. By drawing extensively from the work of their predecessors, like Plato and Aristotle……続きを見る

Devenez incollable sur Machiavel et sa pensée avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr ! Cette fiche propose une analyse approfondie de la philosophie de Nicolas Machiavel, avec sa biographie, le contexte philosop……続きを見る

Devenez incollable sur Thomas d’Aquin et sa pensée avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr ! Cette fiche propose une analyse approfondie de la philosophie de Thomas d’Aquin, avec sa biographie, le contexte philos……続きを見る

Devenez incollable sur saint Augustin et sa pensée avec lePetitPhilosophe.fr ! Cette fiche propose une analyse approfondie de la philosophie de saint Augustin, avec sa biographie, le contexte philos……続きを見る

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Ex……続きを見る

The Vital Roots of European Enlightenment is a collection of essays which deal with the influence of Ibn Tufayl, a 12th-century Arab philosopher from Spain, on major European thinkers. His philosoph……続きを見る

First published in 1999. This is volume II which includes the English translation of Giordano Bruno's selected works of the Hermetic Tradition, from 1964. 続きを見る

Gender scholarship during the last four decades has shown that the exclusion of women's voices and perspectives has diminished academic disciplines in important ways. Traditional scholarship in phil……続きを見る

If we are to distinguish mere non-being from that which is not, yet may be, from that which was not, yet could have been, or from that which will not be, yet could become, we are committed in some w……続きを見る

The Prudence of Love: How Possessing the Virtue of Love Benefits the Lover focuses upon the intersection of philosophical, theological, and psychological issues concerning love. Eric Silverman advoc……続きを見る

In this controversial new book, Christopher A. Colmo offers a view of the 10th century Arab philosopher Alfarabi that draws attention to a previously unremarked aspect of his philosophic project. Co……続きを見る

Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) lived an active, demanding academic and ecclesiastical life that ended while he was still comparatively young. He nonetheless produced many works, varying in length from……続きを見る

This volume re-examines some of the major themes at the intersection of traditional and contemporary metaphysics. The book uses as a point of departure Francisco Suárez’s Metaphysical Disputations p……続きを見る

In this book, Sarah Rolfe Prodan examines the spiritual poetry of Michelangelo in light of three contexts: the Catholic Reformation movement, Renaissance Augustinianism, and the tradition of Italian……続きを見る

This extensively revised and updated second edition of The Neoplatonists provides a valuable introduction to the thought of the four central Neoplatonist philosophers, Plotinus, Porphyry, Proclus an……続きを見る

Modern theory needs a history lesson. Neither Marx nor Nietzsche first gave us theoryーHegel did. To support this contention, Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory presents a refreshingly clear and live……続きを見る

The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays by experts on the philosophy of this period. Starting in the late eighth century, with the renewal of ……続きを見る

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened,……続きを見る

Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of th……続きを見る

This is the first book to provide an account of the influence of Proclus, a member of the Athenian Neoplatonic School, during more than one thousand years of European history (c.500–1600). Proclus w……続きを見る

The book provides in depth studies of two epistemological aspects of Jewish Law (Halakhah) as the ‘Word of God’ – the question of legal reasoning and the problem of knowing and remembering. - How di……続きを見る

Plongez-vous dans l'analyse de la problématique du temps dans les Confessions d'Augustin pour approfondir votre compréhension de l'œuvre ! Que retenir de la problématique du temps dans les Confessio……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, new ways of storytelling and inventing fictions appeared in the French-speaking areas of Europe. This new art still influences our global culture of fiction.……続きを見る

1986 erschien die Erstausgabe von Kurt Flaschs Darstellung der mittelalterlichen Philosophie. Inzwischen ist sie zum Standardwerk geworden. Für die 3. Auflage wurde der Band vom Autor vollständig üb……続きを見る