Rob - Medieval 1

This book is a ten-step journey around the thought and poetry of the most sensitive Italian visionary of modernity, Giacomo Leopardi, whose contribution to Western thought has been acclaimed by admi……続きを見る

This collection of essays investigates the darker aspects of Diderot, writer, art critic, philosopher and encyclopédiste. The chapters focus on the schism between positive images of the Enlightenmen……続きを見る

The concept of truth has been a central preoccupation of philosophy and theology since their inception. The question of what constitutes truth, how it can be known, and how it relates to the human e……続きを見る

The philosophical legacy of Aristotle is one of the most enduring and far-reaching in the history of Western thought. Born in 384 BCE in Stagira, a Greek town in northern Macedonia, Aristotle's inte……続きを見る

The Byzantine Empire, often described as the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East, spanned over a millennium, from the reign of Emperor Constantine I in 330 AD to the fall of Constantinople ……続きを見る

Thomas Aquinas's Questions on the passions form part of the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas's best-known work. This first standalone edition shows, through a translation that is both rigorously accurate a……続きを見る

Explore the profound wisdom of Alfarabi, a pivotal figure in medieval philosophy, and his enduring impact on intellectual thought with Robert Hammond's comprehensive work. Delve into Alfarabi's intr……続きを見る

Una disquisición sobre las causas finales de las cosas naturales muestra con claridad los esfuerzos de un mecanicista por conciliar con el mecanicismo el uso de las inferencias a partir de atribucio……続きを見る

“This well-written, accessible [essay] collection demonstrates a maturation in Jewish studies and medieval philosophy” (Choice). Too often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways tha……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

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

Die Schatzinsel Robert Louis Stevenson - Die Schatzinsel ist der bekannteste Roman des schottischen Autors Robert Louis Stevenson. Er erzählt von der hindernisreichen Suche nach einem vergrabenen Pi……続きを見る

This new and updated edition of Christopher Shields and Robert Pasnau's The Philosophy of Aquinas introduces the Aquinas' overarching explanatory framework in order to provide the necessary backgrou……続きを見る

Medieval Jewish philosophers have been studied extensively by modern scholars, but even though their philosophical thinking was often shaped by their interpretation of the Bible, relatively little a……続きを見る

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstr……続きを見る

Discover the simple way to understand and remember the most groundbreaking concepts in 3,000 years of philosophical thought. Each idea is broken down into three stages: 1/ The helicopter view, which……続きを見る

The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility. In one strand of our thinking, we believe that a person can become more blameworthy b……続きを見る

Dr. Robert Stevick's Insular Art Forms: Their Essence and Construction emerges as the most innovative work of his long and illustrious career. Building on years of research into medieval manuscript ……続きを見る