Author: Stump, Eleonore Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this extensive and deeply researched study, Eleonore Stump examines Aquinas' major works, and clearly assesses the vast range of Aquinas' thought. This will be an unrivalled study and an indispensa...
Author: Aquinas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was Dominican regent master in theology at the University of Paris, where he presided over a series of questions - academic debates - on eth...
Author: Huffman, Carl Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Archytas of Tarentum is one of the three most important philosophers in the Pythagorean tradition, a prominent mathematician, who gave the first solution to the famous problem of doubling the cube, an...
Author: Narveson, Jan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Are the political ideals of liberty and equality compatible? This question is of central and continuing importance in political philosophy, moral philosophy, and welfare economics. In this book, two d...
Author: Villa, Dana Richard Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of politic...
Author: Milton, John Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This prose-work is one of the classics that encapsulates Milton's speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the parliament of England. Milton has squabbled against the Licensing order of 1643. ...
Author: Kristiansen, Kristjana Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Disability is a thorny and muddled concept and philosophical issues have often been overlooked in favour of the sociological amongst the controversy. Arguing about Disability fills that gap by offerin...
Author: Oppy, Graham Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Graham Oppy examines contemporary arguments for and against the existence of God. He shows that none of these arguments are persuasive enough to change the minds of those participants on the question ...
Author: Shand, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A lucid introduction to the nature of good reasoning and how to test and construct good arguments. It assumes no prior knowledge of logic or philosophy. The book includes an accessible introduction to...
Author: Shand, John Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What are arguments for? How do they work and how do they fail? "Arguing Well "gives a lucid introduction to the nature of arguments and provides a guide on when to implement reason. It explains the pr...
Author: Falcon, Andrea Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a full study of the remaining evidence for Xenarchus of Seleucia, one of the earliest interpreters of Aristotle. Andrea Falcon places the evidence in its context, the revival of interest ...
Author: Broadie,Sarah Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Written over a period of thirty-five years, these essays explore the topics of causation, time, fate, determinism, natural teleology, different conceptions of the human soul, the idea of the highest g...
Author: Pangle, Lorraine Smith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the first book to offer a comprehensive account of the major philosophical works on friendship and its relationship to self-love. The book gives central place to Aristotle's searching examinat...
Author: Falcon, Andrea Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Andrea Falcon's work is guided by the exegetical ideal of recreating the mind of Aristotle and his distinctive conception of the theoretical enterprise. In this concise exploration of the significance...
Author: Bradshaw, David Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius an...
Author: Wardy, Robert Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In his latest book, Robert Wardy, a philosopher and classicist, turns his attention to the relation between language and thought. He explores this huge topic in an analysis of linguistic relativism, w...
Author: Roark, Tony Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristotle's definition of time as 'a number of motion with respect to the before and after' has been branded as patently circular by commentators ranging from Simplicius to W. D. Ross. In this book To...
Author: Aristotle Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Metaphysics by Aristotle is a wonderful book. Very in-depth descriptions and good translations. Somewhat heavy reading, but quite informative. A must for the Aristotle reader. Please Note: This book ...
Author: Aristotle Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text gives great insight to the history of philosophy, and changes the way you think about ethics and morals. Excellent philosophical reading. A very important book for anyone who takes interes...
Author: Aristotle Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Another amazing Aristotle writ! Wonderful description and very informative. Accomplished concepts in literature writing. Very helpful to those that plan to write! This book is easy to read in tru...
Author: Aristotle Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Examines the way human societies are governed and organized. Aristotle establishes how constitutions can be upheld and established by examining how societies are run. An extremely exciting work in t...
Author: Aristotle Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristotle emphasizes upon the three kinds of proof that can be offered in behalf of an argument. This is not light reading, but it is amazing the insight you get into human nature from this book. Th...
Author: Aristotle, Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, based on lectures that he gave in Athens in the fourth century BCE, is one of the most significant works in moral philosophy, and has profoundly influenced the whole co...
Author: Polansky,Ronald Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristotle's De anima is the first systematic philosophical account of the soul, which serves to explain the functioning of all mortal living things. In his commentary, Ronald Polansky argues that the ...
Author: Baracchi,Claudia Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Aristotle's Ethics as First Philosophy, Claudia Baracchi demonstrates the indissoluble links between practical and theoretical wisdom in Aristotle's thinking. Referring to a broad range of texts fr...
Description: This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in...
Author: Kontos, Pavlos Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces in...
Author: Pakaluk, Michael Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is an engaging and accessible introduction to the 'Nicomachean Ethics', Aristotle's great masterpiece of moral philosophy. Michael Pakaluk offers a thorough and lucid examination of the entire wo...
Author: Davies, Dave Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between...
Author: Warwick, Kevin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 'if AI is outside your field, or you know something of the subject and would like to know more then Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a brilliant primer.' - Nick Smith, Engineering and Tech...
Author: Warwick, Kevin Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'if AI is outside your field, or you know something of the subject and would like to know more then Artificial Intelligence: The Basics is a brilliant primer.' - Nick Smith, Engineering and Tech...
Author: Allen, James Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanator...
Author: Allen, James Publisher: The Floating Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanator...
Author: Paterson, Craig Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Robert Nozick sharply distinguished his vision of the free society from egalitarian liberals such as John Rawls. Less remarked upon is the distinction he drew between the free society governed by a st...
Author: Arthur, Christopher Benson, Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A magnificent composition written with great genius. Benson has wonderfully illustrated his own personal experiences and views about different aspects of life. It satisfies the readers with its intere...
Author: Benson, Arthur Christopher Publisher: EbooksLib Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Yes, of course it is an experiment! But it is made in corpore vili. It is not irreparable, and there is no reason, more's the pity, why I should not please myself. I will ask it is a rhetorical quest...
Author: Smart, J. J. C. / Haldane, J. J. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this book two philosophers, each committed to unambiguous versions of belief and disbelief, debate the central issues of atheism and theism. Considers one of the oldest and most widely disputed phi...
Author: Pickering, Mary Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume continues to explore the life and works of Auguste Comte during his so-called second career. It covers the period from the coup d'Ètat of Louis Napoleon in late 1851 to Comte's death in 1...
Author: Matthews, Gareth B. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This lucid survey takes readers on a thought-provoking tour through the life and work of Augustine. Explores new insights into one of antiquity’s most important philosophers Topics Include: skep...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The works translated here deal with two major themes in the thinking of St Augustine (354-430): free will and divine grace. On the one hand, free will enables human beings to make their own choices; o...
Description: Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life exp...
Author: Varga, Somogy Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life exp...
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