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  • Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics

    Edited by Jörn Müller, Matthias Perkams, Tobias Hoffmann ...
    Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinas's ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinas's appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotle's insights about the attainability of happiness, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Philosophy Bites Back

    by David Edmonds, Nigel Warburton ...
    Philosophy 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 thinkers in history. From the ancient classics of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the groundbreaking modern thought of Wittgenstein, Rawls, and ... Read more

    $7.09 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne

    Edited by Ullrich Langer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), the great Renaissance skeptic and pioneer of the essay form, is known for his innovative method of philosophical inquiry which mixes the anecdotal and the personal with serious critiques of human knowledge, politics and the law. He is the first European writer to be intensely interested in the representations of his own intimate life, including not just his ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Boethius

    Edited by John Marenbon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Boethius (c.480–c.525/6), though a Christian, worked in the tradition of the Neoplatonic schools, with their strong interest in Aristotelian logic and Platonic metaphysics. He is best known for his Consolation of Philosophy, which he wrote in prison awaiting execution. His works also include a long series of logical translations, commentaries and monographs and some short but densely-argued ... Read more

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  • Interpreting Avicenna

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Peter Adamson ...
    Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of his philosophy. Contributions from leading scholars address a wide range of topics including Avicenna's life and works, ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • The Sublime

    From Antiquity to the Present

    Edited by Timothy M. Costelloe ...
    This volume offers readers a unique and comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on 'the sublime', the singular aesthetic response elicited by phenomena that move viewers by transcending and overwhelming them. The book consists of an editor's introduction and fifteen chapters written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Part One examines philosophical approaches advanced ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • The History of Medieval Philosophy

    Selected Figures of Scholastic Tradition I

    by Ladislav Tkáčik ...
    Series Book 8 - Uni Slovakia
    Calling an epoch Middle Age already involves some sort of judgment. But Middle Ages represent a historic period, in which the identity was established, which was denied by the renaissance, modern world and which however is now being discovered again in its sense and beauty. It is a period in which a co-existence between faith and intellect, between ecclesiastical and profane culture was possible. ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy

    Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers

    by Karen J. Warren, Therese Boos Dykeman, Eve Browning, Judith Chelius Stark, Jane Duran, Marilyn Fischer, Lois Frankel, Edward Fullbrook, Jo Ellen Jacobs, Vicki Harper0, Joy Laine1, Kate Lindemann2, Elizabeth K. Minnich3, Andrea Nye4, Margaret Simons5, Audun Solli6, Catherine Villanueva Gardner7, Mary Ellen Waithe8, Henry West9 ...
    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 philosophy is no different. The 'recovery project' in philosophy is engaged in re-discovering the names, lives, texts, and perspectives of women philosophers from the 6th Century BCE to the present. Karen ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Desmond M. Clarke, Catherine Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 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, and aesthetics; epistemology, logic, mathematics, and language; ethics and political philosophy; and religion. The period between the publication ... Read more

    $51.19 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Anselm

    Edited by Brian Davies, Brian Leftow ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109), Benedictine monk and the second Norman archbishop of Canterbury, is regarded as one of the most important philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages. The essays in this volume explore all of his major ideas both philosophical and theological, including his teachings on faith and reason, God's existence and nature, logic, freedom, truth, ethics, and key ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Passions in William Ockham’s Philosophical Psychology

    by Vesa Hirvonen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)

    $115.29 CAD