Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600 books

Thomas Paine was Deist, a believer in God, but highly critical of priests and appeals to the authority of holy books....  Read More >>

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This book explores a large variety of topics involved in Arabic philosophy.  Read More >>

Thomas Aquinas's work on moral theory focused on the status and value of the virtues, and the way in which a moral...  Read More >>

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Music is not only an art (either as the art of composition or the art of performance) but also a subject for scientific...  Read More >>

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This book uses the tools of analytic philosophy and close readings of medieval Christian philosophical and theological...  Read More >>

A general introduction to the entire volume presents the basic concepts and questions of the philosophy of animal...  Read More >>

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This book offers a comparative study of emotion in Arabic Islamic and English Christian contemplative texts, c....  Read More >>

Revising our vision of John Calvin's sense of history and tradition, Calvin and the Christian Tradition finds a...  Read More >>

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The first section of the volume, “Knowing and Being,” is dedicated to the connection between metaphysics and epistemology...  Read More >>

From ancient times to the present - How Philosophy changes everyday life Philosophy has had a long and sometimes...  Read More >>

Elionor of Sicily, 1325–1375: A Mediterranean Queen’s Life of Family, Administration, Diplomacy, and War follows...  Read More >>

The history of the published versions of the Essais, from 1595 to the present, is the story of a publishing accident....  Read More >>

The history of the published versions of the Essais, from 1595 to the present, is the story of a publishing accident....  Read More >>

The most comprehensive collection of passages from later Stoic thinkers, providing fresh, philosophically sensitive...  Read More >>

Le Compendium du livre De l'ame d'Aristote (Muhtasar Kitab al-nafs) compte parmi les premieres uvres d'exegete d'Averroes....  Read More >>

Cosimo I de' Medici had an ingenious knack for putting culture and science in the service of politics. The alchemical...  Read More >>

This study is concerned with Giordano Brunos ars memoriae and the relation between his works on mnemonics and philosophy...  Read More >>

"Kurt Vonnegut and humanism go hand in hand. In BEHAVING DECENTLY: KURT VONNEGUT'S HUMANISM, Wayne Laufert examines...  Read More >>