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Erasmus, Man of Letters - The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition): Lisa Jardine Erasmus, Man of Letters - The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
Lisa Jardine; Preface by Lisa Jardine
R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central figure of the European intellectual world. Erasmus himself--the historical as opposed to the figural individual--was a brilliant, maverick innovator, who achieved little formal academic recognition in his own lifetime. What Jardine offers here is not only a fascinating study of Erasmus but also a bold account of a key moment in Western history, a time when it first became possible to believe in the existence of something that could be designated "European thought."

Guide to Stoicism Hardcover (Hardcover): St George William Joseph Stock Guide to Stoicism Hardcover (Hardcover)
St George William Joseph Stock
R600 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R110 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Christian Philosophy of Saint Augustine (Hardcover): Etienne Gilson The Christian Philosophy of Saint Augustine (Hardcover)
Etienne Gilson
R1,209 Discovery Miles 12 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement (Paperback): Wendell Phillips The Philosophy of the Abolition Movement (Paperback)
Wendell Phillips
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback): William M. Hamlin Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
William M. Hamlin
R269 R218 Discovery Miles 2 180 Save R51 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability to his war-torn country during the latter half of the sixteenth century. He is best known today, however, as the author of the Essays, a vast collection of meditations on topics ranging from love and sexuality to freedom, learning, doubt, self-scrutiny, and peace of mind. One of the most original books ever to emerge from Europe, Montaigne's masterpiece has been continuously and powerfully influential among writers and philosophers from its first appearance down to the present day. His extraordinary curiosity and discernment, combined with his ability to mix thoughtful judgment with revealing anecdote, make him one of the most readable of all writers. In Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction, William M. Hamlin provides an overview of Montaigne's life, thought, and writing, situating the Essays within the arc of Montaigne's lived experience and focusing on themes of particular interest for contemporary readers. Designed for a broad audience, this introduction will appeal to first-time students of Montaigne as well as to seasoned experts and admirers. Well-informed and lucidly written, Hamlin's book offers an ideal point of entry into the life and work of the world's first and most extraordinary essayist.

Traces on the Rhodian Shore - Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century... Traces on the Rhodian Shore - Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century (Paperback, Revised)
Clarence J. Glacken
R1,235 R1,033 Discovery Miles 10 330 Save R202 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the history of Western thought, men have persistently asked three questions concerning the habitable earth and their relationships to it. Is the earth, which is obviously a fit environment for man and other organic life, a purposefully made creation? Have its climates, its relief, the configuration of its continents influenced the moral and social nature of individuals, and have they had an influence in molding the character and nature of human culture? In his long tenure of the earth, in what manner has man changed it from its hypothetical pristine condition? From the time of the Greeks to our own, answers to these questions have been and are being given so frequently and so continually that we may restate them in the form of general ideas: the idea of a designed earth; the idea of environmental influence; and the idea of man as a geographic agent. These ideas have come from the general thought and experience of men, but the first owes much to mythology, theology, and philosophy; the second, to pharmaceutical lore, medicine, and weather observation; the third, to the plans, activities, and skills of everyday life such as cultivation, carpentry, and weaving. The first two ideas were expressed frequently in antiquity, the third less so, although it was implicit in many discussions which recognized the obvious fact that men through their arts, sciences, and techniques had changed the physical environment about them. This magnum opus of Clarence Glacken explores all of these questions from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century.

Wealth of Self and Wealth of Nations - Self-Axis of the Great Ascent (Paperback): Philip McShane Wealth of Self and Wealth of Nations - Self-Axis of the Great Ascent (Paperback)
Philip McShane
R359 Discovery Miles 3 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Northanger Abbey - A Novel by J. Austen [ The Annotated Edition] (Hardcover): Jane Austen Northanger Abbey - A Novel by J. Austen [ The Annotated Edition] (Hardcover)
Jane Austen
R961 R783 Discovery Miles 7 830 Save R178 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aquinas's Summa Theologiae - A Critical Guide (Hardcover): Jeffrey Hause Aquinas's Summa Theologiae - A Critical Guide (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Hause
R2,196 R1,868 Discovery Miles 18 680 Save R328 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Alone among Thomas Aquinas' works, the Summa Theologiae contains well-developed and integrated discussions of metaphysics, ethics, law, human action, and the divine nature. The essays in this volume, by scholars representing varied approaches to the study of Aquinas, offer thorough, cutting-edge expositions and analyses of these topics and show how they relate to Aquinas' larger system of thought. The volume also examines the reception of the Summa Theologiae from the thirteenth century to the present day, showing how scholars have understood and misunderstood this key text - and how, even after seven centuries of interpretation, we still have much to learn from it. Detailed and accessible, this book will be highly important for scholars and students of medieval philosophy and theology.

The Vatican Mythographers (Hardcover): Ronald E. Pepin The Vatican Mythographers (Hardcover)
Ronald E. Pepin
R2,062 Discovery Miles 20 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Vatican Mythographers offers the first complete English translation of three important sources of knowledge about the survival of classical mythology from the Carolingian era to the High Middle Ages and beyond. The Latin texts were discovered in manuscripts in the Vatican library and published together in the nineteenth century. The three so-called Vatican Mythographers compiled, analyzed, interpreted, and transmitted a vast collection of myths for use by students, poets, and artists. In terms consonant with Christian purposes, they elucidated the fabulous narratives and underlying themes in the works of Ovid, Virgil, Statius, and other poets of antiquity. In so doing, the Vatican Mythographers provided handbooks that included descriptions of ancient rites and customs, curious etymologies, and, above all, moral allegories. Thus we learn that Bacchus is a naked youth who rides a tiger because drunkenness is never mature, denudes us of possessions, and begets ferocity; or that Ulysses, husband of Penelope, passed by the monstrous Scylla unharmed because a wise man bound to chastity overcomes lust. The extensive collection of myths illustrates how this material was used for moral lessons. To date, the works of the Vatican Mythographers have remained inaccessible to scholars and students without a good working knowledge of Latin. The translation thus fulfills a scholarly void. It is prefaced by an introduction that discusses the purposes of the Vatican Mythographers, the influences on them, and their place in medieval and Renaissance mythography. Of course, it also entertains with a host of stories whose undying appeal captivates, charms, inspires, instructs, and sometimes horrifiesus.The book should have wide appeal for a whole range of university courses involving myth.

The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback): Ancius Boethius The Consolation of Philosophy (Paperback)
Ancius Boethius
R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aristotelian Subjectivism: Francisco Suarez's Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Daniel Heider Aristotelian Subjectivism: Francisco Suarez's Philosophy of Perception (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Daniel Heider
R3,174 Discovery Miles 31 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This monograph presents new material on Francisco Suarez's comprehensive theory of sense perception. The core theme is perceptual intentionality in Suarez's theory of the senses, external and internal, as presented in his Commentaria una cum quaestionibus in libros Aristotelis De anima published in 1621. The author targets the question of the multistage genesis of perceptual acts by considering the ontological "items" involved in the procession of sensory information. However, the structural issue is not left aside, and the nature of the relationship due to which our perceptions are mental representations of this or that object is also considered. The heuristic historiographical background includes not only the theories of classical authors, such as Aristotle and Aquinas, but also those of late medieval authors of the fourteenth century. These are headed by John Duns Scotus, John of Jandun, Peter Auriol and Peter John Olivi. Readers will discover the differences between Suarez's and Aquinas's views, as well as other sources that may have served as positive inspiration for the Jesuit's theory. By considering the late medieval philosophy of the fourteenth century, this book helps, to a certain extent, to fill a gap in the historiography of philosophy regarding the link between late medieval and early modern scholasticism. In the first part of the book, the metaphysics of the soul and powers is considered. Chapters on the external senses follow, covering topics such as the sensible species, the causes of sensation, self-awareness, and the ordering of the external senses. A further chapter is devoted to the internal senses and the author argues that by reducing the number and functional scope of the interior senses Suarez deepens the gap between the external senses and the intellect, but he reduces it through emphasizing the unifying efficacy of the soul.This book brings a synthetic and unifying perspective to contemporary research and will particularly appeal to graduate students and researchers in theology and philosophy, especially philosophy of mind.

The Great Gatsby - The Annotated Version of the Original F. Scott Fitzgerald Bestseller (Paperback): F Scott Fitzgerlad The Great Gatsby - The Annotated Version of the Original F. Scott Fitzgerald Bestseller (Paperback)
F Scott Fitzgerlad
R740 R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Save R139 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Interpreting Duns Scotus - Critical Essays (Hardcover): Giorgio Pini Interpreting Duns Scotus - Critical Essays (Hardcover)
Giorgio Pini
R2,259 Discovery Miles 22 590 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

John Duns Scotus is commonly recognized as one of the most original thinkers of medieval philosophy. His influence on subsequent philosophers and theologians is enormous and extends well beyond the limits of the Middle Ages. His thought, however, might be intimidating for the non-initiated, because of the sheer number of topics he touched on and the difficulty of his style. The eleven essays collected here, especially written for this volume by some of the leading scholars in the field, take the reader through various topics, including Duns Scotus's intellectual environment, his argument for the existence of God, and his conceptions of modality, order, causality, freedom, and human nature. This volume provides a reliable point of entrance to the thought of Duns Scotus while giving a snapshot of some of the best research that is now being done on this difficult but intellectually rewarding thinker.

Mind in Nature - From Science to Philosophy (Hardcover): Olga Markic, Marko Ursic, Andrej Ule Mind in Nature - From Science to Philosophy (Hardcover)
Olga Markic, Marko Ursic, Andrej Ule
R4,853 R4,127 Discovery Miles 41 270 Save R726 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The main purpose of this book is to investigate, from the philosophical point of view, the concept of mind in some quickly developing fields of contemporary science, from physics and cosmology to biology and cognitive science. New scientific investigations have brought many empirical results that help to explain natural phenomena from quantum states to human thinking, yet the question of the nature of the mind itself is still open. In this book, the authors discuss several philosophical problems raised or reformulated by recent scientific discoveries. The authors use an interdisciplinary and holistic approach that bridges the gap between scientific and humanistic pictures of the mind.

Babel - A Guide to the East-West Encounter (Paperback): Grosbard Babel - A Guide to the East-West Encounter (Paperback)
Grosbard
R695 Discovery Miles 6 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Humanism for Kids (Paperback): Devin Carroll Humanism for Kids (Paperback)
Devin Carroll; Illustrated by Marion Young
R394 Discovery Miles 3 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Renaissance Personhood - Materiality, Taxonomy, Process (Paperback): Kevin Curran Renaissance Personhood - Materiality, Taxonomy, Process (Paperback)
Kevin Curran
R634 R572 Discovery Miles 5 720 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Unfolding as a series of materially oriented studies ranging from chairs, machines and doors to trees, animals and food, this book retells the story of Renaissance personhood as one of material relations and embodied experience, rather than of emergent notions of individuality and freedom. The book assembles an international team of leading scholars to formulate a new account of personhood in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one that starts with the objects, environments and physical processes that made personhood legible.

The Praise of Folly - Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition): Desiderius Erasmus The Praise of Folly - Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
Desiderius Erasmus; Foreword by Anthony Grafton
R435 R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Save R77 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians and the foibles that make us all human, while ultimately reaffirming the value of Christian ideals. No other book displays quite so completely the transition from the medieval to the modern world, and Erasmus's wit, wisdom, and critical spirit have lost none of their timeliness today. This Princeton Classics edition of The Praise of Folly features a new foreword by Anthony Grafton that provides an essential introduction to this iridescent and enduring masterpiece.

The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Seyed N. Mousavian, Jakob Leth Fink The Internal Senses in the Aristotelian Tradition (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Seyed N. Mousavian, Jakob Leth Fink
R3,135 Discovery Miles 31 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is a collection of essays on a special theme in Aristotelian philosophy of mind: the internal senses. The first part of the volume is devoted to the central question of whether or not any internal senses exist in Aristotle's philosophy of mind and, if so, how many and how they are individuated. The provocative claim of chapter one is that Aristotle recognizes no such internal sense. His medieval Latin interpreters, on the other hand, very much thought that Aristotle did introduce a number of internal senses as shown in the second chapter. The second part of the volume contains a number of case studies demonstrating the philosophical background of some of the most influential topics covered by the internal senses in the Aristotelian tradition and in contemporary philosophy of mind. The focus of the case studies is on memory, imagination and estimation. Chapters introduce the underlying mechanisms of memory and recollection taking its cue from Aristotle but reaching into early modern philosophy as well as studying composite imagination in Avicenna's philosophy of mind. Further topics include the Latin reception of Avicenna's estimative faculty and the development of the internal senses as well as offering an account of the logic of objects of imagination.

The Book of Chivalric Humanism - A Virtue Based Moral Framework for Atheists (Paperback): Carey R Martell The Book of Chivalric Humanism - A Virtue Based Moral Framework for Atheists (Paperback)
Carey R Martell
R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dante's Interpretive Journey (Paperback, 2nd ed.): William Franke Dante's Interpretive Journey (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
William Franke
R971 Discovery Miles 9 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Critically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer, and others, William Franke contributes both to the criticism of Dante's "Divine Comedy" and to the theory of interpretation.
Reading the poem through the lens of hermeneutical theory, Franke focuses particularly on Dante's address to the reader as the site of a disclosure of truth. The event of the poem for its reader becomes potentially an experience of truth both human and divine. While contemporary criticism has concentrated on the historical character of Dante's poem, often insisting on it as undermining the poem's claims to transcendence, Franke argues that precisely the poem's historicity forms the ground for its mediation of a religious revelation. Dante's dramatization, on an epic scale, of the act of interpretation itself participates in the self-manifestation of the Word in poetic form.
"Dante's Interpretive Journey" is an indispensable addition to the field of Dante studies and offers rich insights for philosophy and theology as well.

Lovism - A Humanist Alternative to Feminism (Paperback): Henry Blair Lovism - A Humanist Alternative to Feminism (Paperback)
Henry Blair
R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Cosmic Consciousness - The Man-God Whom We Await (Paperback): Ali Nomad Cosmic Consciousness - The Man-God Whom We Await (Paperback)
Ali Nomad
R399 Discovery Miles 3 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Penumbra of Personhood - 'Anti-Humanism' reconsidered (Hardcover): G.V. Loewen The Penumbra of Personhood - 'Anti-Humanism' reconsidered (Hardcover)
G.V. Loewen
R1,087 R939 Discovery Miles 9 390 Save R148 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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