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Al-Ghazali's "Moderation in Belief" by Al-Ghazali
RRP: $47.73$46.14Centuries after his death, al-Ghazali remains one of the most influential figures of the Islamic intellectual tradition. Although he is best known for his Incoherence of the Philosophers, Moderation in Belief is his most profound work of philosophical... -
Aquinas's Ontology of the Material World: Change, Hylomorphism, and Material Objects by Jeffrey E. Brower 9780198714293
$126.17What is the nature of the material world? And how are its fundamental constituents to be described? These questions are of central concern to contemporary philosophers, and in their attempt to answer them, they have begun reconsidering traditional views... -
Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts: Moral and Political Philosophy by Jill Kraye 9780521426046
RRP: $63.20$52.98The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology contains 40 new translations of important works on moral and political philosophy written... -
Wandering Joy: Meister Eckhart's Mystical Philosophy by Reiner Schurmann 9780970109712
RRP: $19.34$14.13This remarkable work shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century western mystic, as the great teacher of the birth of God in the soul, who shatters the dualism between God and the world, and the self and God. It is not only an exposition of Eckhart's... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 2: Medieval Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: $25.79$23.23Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
Duns Scotus: Philosophical Writings by John Duns Scotus 9780872200180
RRP: $27.08$22.20The philosophical writings of Duns Scotus, one of the most influential philosophers of the Later Middle Ages, are here presented in a volume that presents the original Latin with facing page English translation.CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition... -
Ibn Sina's Remarks and Admonitions: Physics and Metaphysics: An Analysis and Annotated Translation by Shams C. Inati
RRP: $70.95$55.35Al-Isharat wal-Tanbihat (Remarks and Admonitions) is one of the most mature and comprehensive philosophical works by Ibn Sina (Avicenna, 980-1037). Grounded in an exploration of logic (which Ibn Sina described as the gate to knowledge) and happiness (the... -
How To Read Machiavelli by Maurizio Viroli
RRP: $9.02$6.24'Men are infamous and detestable who are destroyers of religion, squanderers of kingdoms and republics, and enemies of the virtues.' Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli (1459-1527) is one of the most influential modern political thinkers. His works,... -
Monologion and Proslogion: with the replies of Gaunilo and Anselm by Saint Anselm
RRP: $16.76$15.20Williams's translations are scrupulously faithful and accurate without being slavishly literal, and yet are lively and graceful.--Paul Vincent Spade, Indiana UniversityAbout the AuthorThomas Williams is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious... -
Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 4: Salvation by Thomas Aquinas 9780268016845
RRP: $37.40$32.20The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to... -
Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence, Part II by Thomas Aquinas
RRP: $36.11$31.14The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to... -
Summa Contra Gentiles, 2: Book Two: Creation by Thomas Aquinas 9780268016807
RRP: $37.40$32.20Book Two of the Summa Contra Gentiles series examines God's freedom in creation, his power as creator of all things, and the nature of man, particularly the unity of soul and body within man.Book InformationISBN 9780268016807Author Thomas AquinasFormat... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199592562
$48.76The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett,... -
Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence Part I by Thomas Aquinas 9780268016869
RRP: $36.11$27.48The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to... -
Medieval Philosophy: A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2 by Anthony Kenny
RRP: $21.92$16.76Sir Anthony Kenny continues his magisterial new history of Western philosophy with a fascinating guide through more than a millennium of thought from 400 AD onwards, charting the story of philosophy from the founders of Christian and Islamic thought... -
German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche by Roger Scruton
RRP: $24.50$17.56German Philosophers contains studies of four of the most important German theorists: Kant, arguably the most influential modern philosopher; Hegel, whose philosophy inspired an enduring vision of a communist society; Schopenhauer, renowned for his... -
Schopenhauer by Julian Young 9780415333474
RRP: $33.53$29.19Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) was one of the greatest writers and German philosophers of the nineteenth century. His work influenced figures as diverse as Wagner, Freud and Nietzsche. Best known as a pessimist, he was one of the few philosophers read... -
The Old English Boethius: with Verse Prologues and Epilogues Associated with King Alfred by Susan Irvine
RRP: $38.64$30.52The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy. Condemned to death for treason around 525 ce, the Roman scholar Boethius turned to philosophy to transform... -
Medieval Philosophy: A history of philosophy without any gaps, Volume 4 by Peter Adamson 9780198842408
RRP: $37.40$26.68Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the fourteenth century. The medieval period is one of the richest in the history of philosophy, yet one of the... -
After Aquinas: Versions of Thomism Fergus Kerr (University of Oxford and University of Edinburgh) 9780631213130
RRP: $41.22$36.49This guide to the most interesting work that has recently appeared on Aquinas reflects the revival of interest in his work. Written by one of the foremost Roman Catholic theologians currently writing in English.Offers a guide to the most interesting work... -
Maimonides: Life and Thought by Moshe Halbertal 9780691165660
RRP: $32.25$25.79Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and... -
The Winding Stair: Francis Bacon, His Rise and Fall Daphne Du Maurier 9781844080748
RRP: $14.18$9.55FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA' ... a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN 'Unlike many authors of popular historical biographies, du Maurier resembled Antonia Fraser in being an indefatigable researcher' FRANCIS KING'du Maurier has no equal'... -
Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy Volume 8 by Robert Pasnau
RRP: $38.69$35.59Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best scholarly research in this flourishing field. The series covers all aspects of medieval philosophy, including the Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew traditions, and runs from the end of antiquity into the... -
Philosophy Bites Back by David Edmonds
RRP: $15.47$11.15Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important... -
Spirit of Mediaeval Philosophy, The by Etienne Gilson
RRP: $29.66$26.33In this book (a translation of his well-known work L'esprit de la philosophie medievale), Etienne Gilson undertakes the task of defining the spirit of mediaeval philosophy. Gilson asks whether we can form the concept of a Christian philosophy and whether... -
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher Heretic by Ingrid D. Rowland
RRP: $23.22$19.87Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo - a thinker whose vision of the... -
The Discovery of the Individual 1050-1200 by Colin Morris 9780802066657
RRP: $28.37$24.76Colin Morris traces the origin of the concept of the individual, not to the Renaissance where it is popularly assumed to have been invented, but farther back, to the spirituality and intellectually dynamic world of Europe in the twelfth century. First... -
The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition by Desiderius Erasmus 9780691165646
RRP: $19.34$14.32Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this... -
History of Philosophy: Vol 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy by Frederick C. Copleston
$36.15Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, first created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. However, since its first publication (the last volume appearing in the mid-1970s) the series has... -
The Adventure by Giorgio Agamben
RRP: $15.47$11.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262037594Author Giorgio AgambenFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 152mm * 102mm * 8mm -
A Hidden Wisdom: Medieval Contemplatives on Self-Knowledge, Reason, Love, Persons, and Immortality by Christina Van Dyke 9780198861683
RRP: $44.49$38.27Medieval philosophy is primarily associated today with university-based disputations and the authorities cited in those disputations. In their own time, however, scholastic debates were recognized as just one part of wide-ranging philosophical and... -
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place by Hamish Scott
$53.01This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and... -
Philosophy of Western Music: A Contemporary Introduction by Andrew Kania
RRP: $38.69$34.37This is the first comprehensive book-length introduction to the philosophy of Western music that fully integrates consideration of popular music and hybrid musical forms, especially song. Its author, Andrew Kania, begins by asking whether Bob Dylan... -
Good Without God by Greg Epstein 9780061670121
RRP: $20.63$13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061670121Author Greg EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & Company -
How To Be Good: What Socrates Can Teach Us About the Art of Living Well by Massimo Pigliucci 9781399804950
RRP: $16.76$11.09What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people? Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? Can we get our leaders to care... -
John Scottus Eriugena by Dierdre Carabine 9780195113624
RRP: $41.27$32.83This volume provides a brief and accessible introduction to the 9th-century philosopher and theologian John Scottus Eriugena, who was perhaps the most important philosophical thinker to appear in Latin Christendom in the period between Augustine and... -
Renaissance Philosophy by Brian P. Copenhaver 9780192891846
RRP: $55.46$45.78The Renaissance has long been recognized as a brilliant moment in the development of Western civilization. However, little attention has been devoted to the distinct contributions of philosophy to Renaissance culture. This volume introduces the reader to... -
Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe, Volume II: The Heroic Age by R. W. Southern 9780631220794
RRP: $50.25$45.20This is the second of the three volumes comprising, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe. Focussing on the period from c.1090-1212, the volume explores the lives, scholarly resources, and contributions of a wide sample of people who either... -
Aquinas on Friendship by Daniel Schwartz 9780199205394
$138.70Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of... -
On Exile by Francesco Filelfo 9780674066366
RRP: $38.64$31.04Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation,...