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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume II: Cultures and Power by Hamish Scott 9780198820574
RRP: $52.88$52.23This 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... -
The Treatise on Happiness: The Treatise on Human Acts by Thomas Aquinas 9781624665295
RRP: $33.53$27.15The fifth volume of The Hackett Aquinas, a series of central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations accompanied by a thorough commentary on the text.Acclaim for previous volumes in the series:The Treatise on Human Nature... -
Machiavelli's Ethics by Erica Benner
RRP: $38.70$30.56Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did... -
Plotinus by Eyjolfur Kjalar Emilsson
RRP: $33.53$29.19Plotinus (AD 205-270) was the founder of Neoplatonism, whose thought has had a profound influence on medieval philosophy, and on Western philosophy more broadly. In this engaging book, Eyjolfur K. Emilsson introduces and explains the full spectrum of... -
The Letters of Marsilio Ficino Volume 11: (Book XII) by Language Department of the School of Economic Science, London 9780856835193
RRP: $38.70$35.28This volume and its companions contain the first English translation of the letters written by the philosopher-priest who helped to shape the changes that we associate with the Renaissance. The letters in this eleventh volume cover the period from autumn... -
Islamic Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide by Majid Fakhry 9781851686254
RRP: $12.89$9.17From the introduction of Greek Philosophy into the Muslim world in the eighth century, right through to modern times, Majid Fakhry charts the evolution and interaction of philosophy, theology, and mysticism in the Islamic context. Highlighting key... -
The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Sina, Suhrawardi, Shahrazuri and Beyond by L. W. C. van Lit 9781474441230
RRP: $37.40$30.16Using an innovative approach, Van Lit looks at the curious idea concerning eschatology proposed by Ibn Sina.Book InformationISBN 9781474441230Author L. W. C. van LitFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh... -
Against the Academicians and The Teacher by Augustine 9780872202122
RRP: $23.21$19.23These new translations of two treatises dealing with the possibility and nature of knowledge in the face of skeptical challenges are the first to be rendered from the Latin critical edition, the first to be made specifically with a philosophical audience... -
Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic by Giordano Bruno
RRP: $42.56$36.61Giordano Bruno's notorious public death in 1600, at the hands of the Inquisition in Rome, marked the transition from Renaissance philosophy to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. In his philosophical works he addressed such delicate... -
Hume's Epistemology in the Treatise: A Veritistic Interpretation by Frederick F. Schmitt 9780199683116
$110.55Frederick F. Schmitt offers a systematic interpretation of David Hume's epistemology, as it is presented in the indispensable A Treatise of Human Nature. Hume's text alternately manifests scepticism, empiricism, and naturalism in epistemology... -
Medieval Thought by David Luscombe 9780192891792
RRP: $55.46$43.85The Middle Ages span a period of well over a millennium: from the emperor Constantine's Christian conversion in 312 to the early sixteenth century. During this time there was remarkable continuity of thought, but there were also many changes made in... -
Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought by Hayrettin Yücesoy 9780231209410
RRP: $38.70$30.04The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative and ideas about governance are treated as an extension of commentary on sacred texts. Disenchanting the... -
The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas by Eleonore Stump
RRP: $96.74$87.89This 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 worldview which he inherited, developed, altered, and argued... -
Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas by Etienne Gilson
RRP: $29.66$26.33In this final edition of his classic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic unity of Thomistic philosophical thought. The philosophical thinking of Aquinas is the result of reason being challenged to relate to... -
Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker by Frederick C. Copleston
RRP: $20.63$14.98Aquinas (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 interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology... -
Theology and the Scientific Imagination: From the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, Second Edition by Amos Funkenstein
RRP: $54.18$42.62Theology and the Scientific Imagination is a pioneering work of intellectual history that transformed our understanding of the relationship between Christian theology and the development of science. Distinguished scholar Amos Funkenstein explores the... -
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan by Noel Malcolm 9780198709084
$145.06Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan is one of the most important philosophical texts in the English language, and one of the most influential works of political philosophy ever written. This is the first critical edition based on a full study of the manuscript and... -
Aquinas on Efficient Causation and Causal Powers by Gloria Frost 9781009225427
RRP: $96.75$87.38In this innovative book, Gloria Frost reconstructs and analyses Aquinas's theories on efficient causation and causal powers, focusing specifically on natural causal powers and efficient causation in nature. Frost presents each element of Aquinas's... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780486295831
$5.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486295831Author Sir Thomas MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
The Complete Treatises: with Selected Letters and Prayers and the Meditation on Human Redemption by Anselm 9781647920807
RRP: $23.21$19.75An expanded version of the translator's Anselm: The Basic Writings, The Complete Treatises incorporates new translations of works omitted from that volume (most notably, De grammatico) in addition to selected letters and prayers of philosophical interest... -
Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan: Editorial Introduction by Noel Malcolm 9780198709091
$47.90Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan is one of the most important philosophical texts in the English language, and one of the most influential works of political philosophy ever written. This Introduction accompanies the first critical edition based on a full study... -
The Essential Augustine by Augustine
RRP: $19.34$16.24TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword to the Second Edition. I. THE MAN AND HIS WRITINGS: How Augustine Came to the Episcopacy (Sermon 355, 2); Augustine Chooses Eraclius as His Successor (Letter 213, 1, 5, & 6); Augustine on His Own Writings (Retractations Prol... -
Aquinas by Brian Davies 9780826470959
RRP: $28.37$27.71St. Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274) is widely viewed as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all time. Aquinas was the ultimate combination of theologian and philosopher; and his influence on Christian life and thought reaches from the Council of... -
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe by Desmond M. Clarke 9780199671649
RRP: $49.01$48.70In this Handbook twenty-six leading scholars survey the development of philosophy between the middle of the sixteenth century and the early eighteenth century. The five parts of the book cover metaphysics and natural philosophy; the mind, the passions,... -
Ockham Explained by Rondo Keele 9780812696509
RRP: $23.21$17.80Ockham Explained is an important and much-needed resource on William of Ockham, one of the most important philosophers of the Middle Ages. His eventful and controversial life was marked by sharp career moves and academic and ecclesiastical battles. At... -
Roger Bacon: A Compendium of the Study of Philosophy by Thomas S. Maloney 9780197266342
$91.07Shortly after composing his Opus maius, Opus minus, and Opus tertium (1267) Bacon felt the need once again to call attention to obstacles to the achievement of wisdom placed by the Church, academia, and civil society in the early 1270s. This he did in... -
The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena: A Study of Idealism in the Middle Ages by Dermot Moran 9780521892827
RRP: $58.04$49.20This work is a substantial contribution to the history of philosophy. Its subject, the ninth-century philosopher John Scottus Eriugena, developed a form of idealism that owed as much to the Greek Neoplatonic tradition as to the Latin fathers and... -
Proslogion - including Gaunilo Objections and Anselm`s Replies St. Anselm St. Anselm 9781587316593
$9.17Written for his brother Benedictine monks around 1077, Anselm's Proslogion is perhaps the best-known partially-read book of the Middle Ages. Many readers are familiar only with Anselm's well-known argument for God's existence in Chapters 2-4, which is... -
The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus by Thomas Williams 9780521635639
RRP: $39.98$35.05Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One... -
Aquinas and Modern Science: A New Synthesis of Faith and Reason by Dr Gerard Verschuuren 9781621382287
RRP: $21.93$21.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621382287Author Gerard M VerschuurenFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy by A. S. McGrade
RRP: $39.98$35.05The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy, first published in 2003, takes its readers into one of the most exciting periods in the history of philosophy. It spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and beyond. It... -
William of Ockham, Dialogus Part 1, Book 6 by George Knysh 9780197267516
$129.15William Ockham intended the Dialogus to be a thorough examination (a "summa") of the doctrinal and political issues at stake during what in fact became the last major confrontation between Church and State in the waning period of the Western Middle Ages... -
William of Auvergne, Rhetorica divina, seu ars oratoria eloquentiae divinae by R.J. Teske 9789042928442
RRP: $96.75$96.09This volume contains Professor Roland Teske's translation of William of Auvergne's Divine Rhetoric along with the Latin text, introduction, and notes. The Latin text improves on that of the 1674 printed edition by the use of two... -
The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas by Brian Davies 9780199351985
RRP: $70.95$64.25Thomas 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 a few pages to a few volumes. The present book is an... -
The Cambridge Companion to Ockham by Paul Vincent Spade
RRP: $39.98$35.05The Franciscan William of Ockham (c. 1288-1347) was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. Along with Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, he is regarded as one of the three main figures in medieval philosophy after around 1150... -
Ockham: Philosophical Writings: A Selection by William of Ockham 9780872200784
RRP: $27.08$22.20This volume contains selections of Ockham's philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics. This edition includes textual markings referring readers to appendices containing changes in the... -
The Philosophy of Aquinas by Christopher Shields 9780199301249
RRP: $44.49$33.23This 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 background to his philosophical investigations across a wide... -
Ibn al-ʿArabī's Barzakh: The Concept of the Limit and the Relationship between God and the World by Salman H. Bashier 9780791462287
$33.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791462287Author Salman H. BashierFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements: A Study with Editions of Unpublished Texts Luca Burzelli 9789462704152
RRP: $98.04$79.12First ever editions of texts on the elements from Pomponazzi’s lectures on De coelo, De sensu, Meteorologica and De generatione et corruptione.In medieval and early modern natural philosophy, very few issues were as controversial as the nature of the... -
Instrumentality: On Technical Objects and Orientations in the Later Middle Ages J. Allan Mitchell 9781517917395
$27.71From medieval to modern, exploring instrumental attitudes toward physical gadgets, diagrams, concepts, methods, and disciplines Opening up the instrumental condition of the human for critical reflection and renewal, Instrumentality illuminates key...