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3 Jewish Philosophers: Philo - Selections, Saadya Gaon - Book of Doctrines and Beliefs, Yehuda Halevi - Kuzari (Paperback):... 3 Jewish Philosophers: Philo - Selections, Saadya Gaon - Book of Doctrines and Beliefs, Yehuda Halevi - Kuzari (Paperback)
Hans Lewy, Alexander Altmann, Issak Heinemann
R391 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This anthology brings together the most important works of three Jewish Philosophers of the Middle Ages. It includes selections of the writings of Philo of Alexandria, edited with an introduction by Hans Lewy; Sa'adia Gaon's "Book of Doctrine's and Beliefs", abridged, introduced and translated from the Arabic by Alexander Altmann; and Yehuda Halevi's influential "Kuzari", abridged and with an introduction and commentary by Isaak Heinemann, with a selection of Halevi's poetry. All educated students of Jewish thought should be familiar with these seminal writers.

Classical Theism - New Essays on the Metaphysics of God (Hardcover): Jonathan Fuqua, Robert C. Koons Classical Theism - New Essays on the Metaphysics of God (Hardcover)
Jonathan Fuqua, Robert C. Koons
R3,717 Discovery Miles 37 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume provides a contemporary account of classical theism. It features sixteen original essays from leading scholars that advance the discussion of classical theism in new and interesting directions.

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, No. 1 (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Arthur Farndell, Valery Rees, Adrian Bertoluzzi The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, No. 1 (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Arthur Farndell, Valery Rees, Adrian Bertoluzzi
R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

MARSILIO FICINO of Florence (1433-99) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Renaissance. He put before society a new ideal of human nature, emphasising its divine potential. As teacher and guide to a remarkable circle of men, he made a vital contribution to changes that were taking place in European thought. For Ficino, the writings of Plato provided the key to the most important knowledge for mankind, knowledge of God and the soul. It was the absorption of this knowledge that proved so important to Ficino, to his circle, and to later writers and artists. As a young man, Ficino had been directed by Cosimo de' Medici towards the study of Plato in the original Greek. Later he formed a close connection with Cosimo's grandson, Lorenzo de' Medici, under whom Florence achieved its age of brilliance. Gathered round Ficino and Lorenzo were such men as Landino, Bembo, Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola. The ideas they discussed became central to the work of Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer, and many other writers and artists. The first letter in this volume is from Cosimo to Ficino, inviting him to visit him on his estate at Careggii and to bring with him `Plato's book on The Highest Good' (the Philebus) which Cosimo had asked him to translate in 1463. Though there is some uncertainty about the precise nature of Ficino's Platonic Academy, in another letter he replies to a correspondent's request for `that maxim of mine that is inscribed around the walls of the Academy'. This revised edition has corrected errors made in the original translation more than four decades ago, and the notes to the letters and the biographical notes have incorporated much new material from scholarship on the period which has grown enormously in the intervening years and continues to flourish.

Henricus Bate Speculum Divinorum et Quorundam Naturalium, Pt. XIII-XVI - On Thinking and Happiness (Hardcover): Guy Guldentops Henricus Bate Speculum Divinorum et Quorundam Naturalium, Pt. XIII-XVI - On Thinking and Happiness (Hardcover)
Guy Guldentops; Henricus Bate
R2,620 Discovery Miles 26 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume comprises Parts XIII XVI of the Speculum Divinorum et Quorundam Naturalium of Henricus Bate and includes "On Thinking and Happiness.""

Coming To Our Senses (Paperback, Reprint ed.): Morris Berman Coming To Our Senses (Paperback, Reprint ed.)
Morris Berman
R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days
De nobilitate animi (Hardcover, New): Guillelmus de Aragonia De nobilitate animi (Hardcover, New)
Guillelmus de Aragonia; Edited by William D. Paden, Mario Trovato
R982 R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Save R97 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Guillelmus de Aragonia was known as a philosopher for his commentary on Boethius and his works on physiognomy, oneirology, and astronomy; he was also a physician, perhaps a personal physician to the king of Aragon. In a time of intellectual upheaval and civil strife, when nobility was on the verge of being defined with legal precision as it had not been since antiquity, Guillelmus taught that true nobility is an acquired habit, not an inborn quality. Guillelmus wrote De nobilitate animi, "On Nobility of Mind," around 1280-1290. Working in the recently renewed Aristotelian tradition, he took an independent and original approach, quoting from philosophers, astronomers, physicians, historians, naturalists, orators, poets, and rustics pronouncing proverbs. This edition presents the Latin text, based on six manuscripts, three of them hitherto unknown, along with an English translation. An introduction reviews Guillelmus's life and work, considering his theory of nobility in the contexts of history, philosophy, and rhetoric, and studies the authorities he quotes with particular attention to the troubadours, lyric poets from the area known today as the south of France. An appendix of sources and analogues is also included.

Laconics of Cult (Paperback): Ingersoll Lockwood Laconics of Cult (Paperback)
Ingersoll Lockwood
R139 Discovery Miles 1 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Framing the World - Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought (Hardcover): Margaret Small Framing the World - Classical Influences on Sixteenth-Century Geographical Thought (Hardcover)
Margaret Small
R2,285 Discovery Miles 22 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A timely examination of the ways in which sixteenth-century understandings of the world were framed by classical theory. The long sixteenth century saw a major shift in European geographical understanding: in the space of little more than a hundred years Western Europeans moved to see the world as a place in which all parts of the sphere were made by God for human exploitation and to interact with one another. Taking such a scenario as its historical backdrop, Framing the Early Modern World examines the influence of Greek and Roman ideas on the formulation of new geographical theories in sixteenth-century western Europe. While discussions of inhabitability dominate the geographical literature throughout the sixteenth century, humanist geographers of the sixteenth century, trained in Greek and Roman writings, found in them the key intellectual tools which allowed the oikoumene (the habitable world) to be redefined as a globally-connected world. In this world, all parts of the sphere were designed to be in communication with one another. The coincidence of the Renaissance and the period of European exploration enabled a new geographical understanding fashioned as much by classical theory as by early modern empirical knowledge. Newly discovered lands could then be defined, exploited and colonized. In this way, the author argues, the seeds of the modern era of colonization, expansionism and ultimately globalization were sown. Framing the Early Modern World is a timely work, contributing to a growing discourse on the origins of globalization and the roots of modernity.

The Complete Treatises - with Selected Letters and Prayers and the Meditation on Human Redemption (Hardcover): Anselm The Complete Treatises - with Selected Letters and Prayers and the Meditation on Human Redemption (Hardcover)
Anselm; Edited by Thomas Williams
R1,417 Discovery Miles 14 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Theory Of Conscious Harmony (Paperback): Rodney Collin The Theory Of Conscious Harmony (Paperback)
Rodney Collin
R444 Discovery Miles 4 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Before Paulo Coelho and Echart Tolle, came Rodney Collin. Rodney Collin was closely associated with P.D. Ouspensky. In 1948 he moved to Mexico to carry on the study and practice of the ideas received from Ouspensky and Ouspensky's teacher, Gurdjieff. During the next few years he corresponded with a large number of people, from many walks of life, all over the world, who sought to understand the Fourth Way - a path of spiritual discipline to be pursued in everyday life. After his death in 1956 his letters were collected and edited by those who had been working with him, and were issued in the form of this book.

Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution (Hardcover): Kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin Mutual Aid a Factor of Evolution (Hardcover)
Kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
R752 Discovery Miles 7 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance - On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart (Paperback): Reiner Schurmann, Ian Alexander... Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance - On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart (Paperback)
Reiner Schurmann, Ian Alexander Moore
R996 Discovery Miles 9 960 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In this lecture course, Reiner Schurmann develops the idea that, in between the spiritual Carolingian Renaissance and the secular humanist Renaissance, there was a distinctive medieval Renaissance connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. Focusing on Thomas Aquinas's ontology and epistemology, William of Ockham's conceptualism, and Meister Eckhart's speculative mysticism, Schurmann shows how thought began to break free from religion and the hierarchies of the feudal, neo-Platonic order and devote its attention to otherness and singularity. A crucial supplement to Schurmann's magnum opus Broken Hegemonies, Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance will be essential reading for anyone interested in the rise and fall of Western principles, and thus in how to think and act today.

Thomas More (Hardcover): J. Paul Thomas More (Hardcover)
J. Paul
R1,590 Discovery Miles 15 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Utopia. He has been variously thought of as a reformer and a conservative, a civic humanist and a devout Christian, a proto-communist and a monarchical absolutist. His work spans contemporary disciplines from history to politics to literature, and his ideas have variously been taken up by seventeenth-century reformers and nineteenth-century communists. Through a comprehensive treatment of More's writing, from his earliest poetry to his reflections on suffering in the Tower of London, Joanne Paul engages with both the rich variety and some of the fundamental consistencies that run throughout More's works. In particular, Paul highlights More's concern with the destruction of what is held 'in common', whether it be in the commonwealth or in the body of the church. In so doing, she re-establishes More's place in the history of political thought, tracing the reception of his ideas to the present day. Paul's book serves as an essential foundation for any student encountering More's writing for the first time, as well as providing an innovative reconsideration of the place of his works in the history of ideas.

Gardens of Philosophy, v. 8 (Book IX) (Hardcover): Arthur Farndell Gardens of Philosophy, v. 8 (Book IX) (Hardcover)
Arthur Farndell
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What made the Renaissance tick? Why had it such a force that its thinking spread from a small group of scholars in Florence, working in their own brilliant ways but coming together in Ficino's small villa on the Florentine hillside, supported by the powerful but highly intelligent Medici family - so that it affected the thinking of the whole of Europe, and eventually of America, for five hundred years and is continuing to do so? This is the first English translation of some of the key works: Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), having translated all the extant works of Plato's Greek philosophy for the first time into Latin, absorbs their wisdom and here, in forty short articles, presents to the Medici family, as his patrons and sponsors, his commentaries on the meaning and implications of twenty-five of Plato's Dialogues and of the twelve Letters traditionally ascribed to Plato. The book puts the reader into the moment of history when Cosimo de' Medici and his family were given the opportunity which 'good rulers' have sought, from the earliest Greek state till today, to unite power with wisdom. Though this book will be an essential buy for Renaissance scholars and historians, its freshness of thought and wisdom is presented by its title, jacket illustration and introductory material as a book to be reflected on by general readers of philosophy and wisdom. Here is that extraordinary tsunami of human thought and endeavour and sheer vital power that was the Renaissance, caught for us in its early stirrings of new thought. This is a book of deep wisdom for reflection, as well as a glimpse of mankind awakening once more to its true potential.

Neue Welten - Star Trek als humanistische Utopie? (German, Book, 1. Aufl. 2019): Michael C Bauer Neue Welten - Star Trek als humanistische Utopie? (German, Book, 1. Aufl. 2019)
Michael C Bauer
R757 R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Save R137 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Am 8. September 1966 schrieb die NBC Fernsehgeschichte: An diesem Tag strahlte der US-amerikanische Fernsehsender die erste Folge einer neuen Science-Fiction-Serie aus, mit einer Geschichte uber eine ausserirdische Lebensform, die Salz zum UEberleben braucht und aus Verzweiflung mehrere Mannschaftsmitglieder des Raumschiffes Enterprise ermordet. So recht ahnte bei NBC wohl niemand, dass in diesen 50 Minuten der Grundstein fur ein ungeheuer erfolgreiches Science-Fiction-Franchise gelegt wurde: Star Trek. Allein der 50. Geburtstag von Star Trek ware schon Grund genug gewesen, der Serie eine wissenschaftliche Tagung zu widmen. Noch dazu kommt: Ihrem Erfinder Gene Roddenberry wird nachgesagt, "seine" Serie nach seinen eigenen humanistischen UEberzeugungen geformt, im Star Trek-Universum mithin eine humanistische Utopie verwirklicht zu haben. Aber stimmt das? Ist die Zukunftsvision von Star Trek eine, in der alle humanistischen Ideale erfullt sind? Eine Welt, in der friedliche Kooperation und die freie Entfaltung aller Individuen die (oft genug auch moerderische) Konkurrenz hinter sich gelassen haben? Diesen und vielen weiteren spannenden Fragen rund um Star Trek gingen die Gaste einer hochkaratigen, interdisziplinaren Tagung vom 15. bis 17. April 2016 in Nurnberg nach. Eingeladen hatte der Humanistische Verband Bayern. Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert die Beitrage.

Basic Issues in Medieval Philosophy - Selected Readings Presenting the Interactive Discourses Among the Major Figures... Basic Issues in Medieval Philosophy - Selected Readings Presenting the Interactive Discourses Among the Major Figures (Paperback, 2 Revised Edition)
Richard N. Bosley, Martin M Tweedale
R1,803 Discovery Miles 18 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this important collection, the editors argue that medieval philosophy is best studied as an interactive discussion between thinkers working on very much the same problems despite being often widely separated in time or place. Each section opens with at least one selection from a classical philosopher, and there are many points at which the readings chosen refer to other works that the reader will also find in this collection. There is a considerable amount of material from central figures such as Augustine, Abelard, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham, as well as extensive texts from thinkers in the medieval Islamic world. Each selection is prefaced by a brief introduction by the editors, providing a philosophical and religious background to help make the material more accessible to the reader.This edition, updated throughout, contains a substantial new chapter on medieval psychology and philosophy of mind, with texts from authors not previously represented such as John Buridan and Peter John Olivi.

Utopia (Hardcover): Thomas More Utopia (Hardcover)
Thomas More; Translated by Dominic Baker-Smith 1
R451 R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Save R85 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all. As the traveller, Raphael, describes the island to More, a bitter contrast is drawn between this rational society and the custom-driven practices of Europe. So how can the philosopher try to reform his society? In his fictional discussion, More takes up a question first raised by Plato and which is still a challenge in the contemporary world. In the history of political thought few works have been more influential than Utopia, and few more misunderstood.

A Way into Scholasticism - A Companion to St. Bonaventure's 'The Soul's Journey into God' (Paperback):... A Way into Scholasticism - A Companion to St. Bonaventure's 'The Soul's Journey into God' (Paperback)
Peter S Dillard
R628 Discovery Miles 6 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Bonaventure of Bagnoregio's 'The Soul's Journey into God' is a masterpiece of thirteenth-century Scholasticism. In his thoughtful and illuminating commentary, Peter Dillard engages with the text to introduce some of the perennial issues and characteristic methods of Scholasticism to a contemporary audience. Dillard addresses the sophisticated speculative system underlying Bonaventure's writing, bringing the reader to a number of fundamental questions in epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind, dogmatic theology, and contemplative mysticism. A richness of conceptual resources and perspective that spans Platonic, Neoplatonic, and Aristotelian thought, and the thought of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, are also revealed. Dillard offers his own highly engaging speculations on the treatise, developing the "Seraphic Doctor's" insights into lines of thought for further consideration by the reader. 'A Way into Scholasticism' combines academic rigour with accessible clarity. Peter S. Dillard is the author of 'Heidegger and Philosophical Atheology: A Neo-Scholastic Critique' (2008) and 'The Truth about Mary: A Theological and Philosophical Evaluation of the Proposed Fifth Marian Dogma' (2009). 'This commentary will be of great importance to anyone interested in understanding the way in which Scholastic philosophical theology illuminates Christian belief and intellectual tradition.This is a powerful reading and appreciation of Bonaventure's most famous work, "The Soul's Journey into God...". In a spare, precise, and occasionally elegant prose, Dillard brings a contemporary mentality to bear on Bonaventure's project and every step involved in the progress through six stages of spiritual growth leading to the possibility of mystical contemplation or ecstasy.' Patrick Padigan, Heythrop Journal.

Human Nature: A Reader - A Reader (Hardcover): Joel J. Kupperman Human Nature: A Reader - A Reader (Hardcover)
Joel J. Kupperman
R1,351 R1,218 Discovery Miles 12 180 Save R133 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This anthology provides a set of distinctive, influential views that explore the mysteries of human nature from a variety of perspectives. It can be read on its own, or in conjunction with Joel Kupperman's text, Theories of Human Nature .

The Guide of the Perplexed - Abridged Edition (Paperback): Moses Maimonides The Guide of the Perplexed - Abridged Edition (Paperback)
Moses Maimonides; Edited by Julius Guttmann; Translated by Chaim Rabin
R374 Discovery Miles 3 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aquinas's Ethics (Paperback): Thomas M. Osborne Jr Aquinas's Ethics (Paperback)
Thomas M. Osborne Jr
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Element provides an account of Thomas Aquinas's moral philosophy that emphasizes the intrinsic connection between happiness and the human good, human virtue, and the precepts of practical reason. Human beings by nature have an end to which they are directed and concerning which they do not deliberate, namely happiness. Humans achieve this end by performing good human acts, which are produced by the intellect and the will, and perfected by the relevant virtues. These virtuous acts require that the agent grasps the relevant moral principles and uses them in particular cases.

Henrici de Gandavo Quodlibet XIII (Hardcover, 18th ed.): J Decorte Henrici de Gandavo Quodlibet XIII (Hardcover, 18th ed.)
J Decorte
R2,593 Discovery Miles 25 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fragmented Nature: Medieval Latinate Reasoning on the Natural World and Its Order (Hardcover): Mattia Cipriani, Nicola Polloni Fragmented Nature: Medieval Latinate Reasoning on the Natural World and Its Order (Hardcover)
Mattia Cipriani, Nicola Polloni
R3,843 Discovery Miles 38 430 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Latin Middle Ages were characterised by a vast array of different representations of nature. These conceptualisations of the natural world were developed according to the specific requirements of many different disciplines, with the consequent result of producing a fragmentation of images of nature. Despite this plurality, two main tendencies emerged. On the one hand, the natural world was seen as a reflection of God's perfection, teleologically ordered and structurally harmonious. On the other, it was also considered as a degraded version of the spiritual realm - a world of impeccable ideas, separate substances, and celestial movers. This book focuses on this tension between order and randomness, and idealisation and reality of nature in the Middle Ages. It provides a cutting-edge profile of the doctrinal and semantic richness of the medieval idea of nature, and also illustrates the structural interconnection among learned and scientific disciplines in the medieval period, stressing the fundamental bond linking together science and philosophy, on the one hand, and philosophy and theology, on the other. This book will appeal to scholars and students alike interested in Medieval European History, Theology, Philosophy, and Science.

Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis) (Paperback): P.N. Singer, Philip J.Van Der Eijk Galen: Works on Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (De Temperamentis) (Paperback)
P.N. Singer, Philip J.Van Der Eijk; Assisted by Piero Tassinari
R858 Discovery Miles 8 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Mixtures is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body. It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures (or 'temperaments') of hot, cold, dry and wet. It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'well-tempered' person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both physically and psychologically. Mixtures teaches the aspiring doctor how to assess the patient's mixture by training one's sense of touch and by a sophisticated use of diagnostic indicators. It presents a therapeutic regime based on the interaction between foods, drinks, drugs and the body's mixture. Mixtures is a work of natural philosophy as well as medicine. It acknowledges Aristotle's profound influence whilst engaging with Hippocratic ideas on health and nutrition, and with Stoic, Pneumatist and Peripatetic physics. It appears here in a new translation, with generous annotation, introduction and glossaries elucidating the argument and setting the work in its intellectual context.

Life in the Posthuman Condition - Critical Responses to the Anthropocene (Hardcover): S. E Wilmer, Audrone Zukauskaite Life in the Posthuman Condition - Critical Responses to the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
S. E Wilmer, Audrone Zukauskaite
R2,636 R2,210 Discovery Miles 22 100 Save R426 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This edited volume reconsiders the notion of life and conceptualizes those forms of life which have been excluded from modern philosophy, such as post-Anthropocene life, the life of non-human animals and the life of inorganic objects. The contributors, who include prominent contemporary philosophers and theorists ask a wide range of questions including: what new forms of subjection can we see with the return of the 'Anthropos'?, what can animals teach us in the Anthropocene?, can we reconstruct the perceptual world of animals and take a look into their 'subjectivity'?, what happens to inorganic matter (waste or digital objects) when no longer used by any subject and can we think about inorganic matter in terms of subjective self-awareness? The first section, Life Beyond the Anthropocene, critically questions Anthropocene theory and outlines alternative scenarios, such as Gaia theory or post-Anthropocene forms of life on Earth and other planets, as well as new forms of subjectivity. The second part, Human and Non-Human Interactions, investigates the obscure boundary, between life and non-life, and between human and non-human animal life forms. The third part, Forms of Life and New Ontologies, concentrates on new ontologies and discusses life in terms of vitalism, new materialism, movement, form-taking activity and plasticity.

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