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Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Western philosophy, c 500 to c 1600

Medieval Logic (Paperback): Philotheus Boehner Medieval Logic (Paperback)
Philotheus Boehner
R431 R347 Discovery Miles 3 470 Save R84 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Henrici de Gandavo Quodlibet XV (Hardcover): Girard J. Etzkorn, Gordon A. Wilson Henrici de Gandavo Quodlibet XV (Hardcover)
Girard J. Etzkorn, Gordon A. Wilson
R2,438 Discovery Miles 24 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Series 2, No. 20The sixteen questions in Henry of Ghent's Quodlibet XV treat a range of issues the immaculate conception, the omnipotence of God, the nature of an "instance," the absolute and ordained powers of the pope, and the nature of a just war. The text found in this book was reconstructed based on manuscripts copied from a first Parisian university exemplar, manuscripts whose model was probably a second Parisian university exemplar, and a manuscript that was in the possession of Godfrey of Fontaines."

HUMANship - Why Being Human Is Your Superpower (Paperback): Bailey Li HUMANship - Why Being Human Is Your Superpower (Paperback)
Bailey Li
R442 R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Save R76 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dying Is Not Death (Hardcover): Lee Hoinacki Dying Is Not Death (Hardcover)
Lee Hoinacki
R1,237 R982 Discovery Miles 9 820 Save R255 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Machiavelli - The Art of Teaching People What to Fear (Paperback): Willard Wood Machiavelli - The Art of Teaching People What to Fear (Paperback)
Willard Wood; Patrick Boucheron 1
R301 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to philosophize in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we have never stopped reading him, always to pull ourselves out of a torpor. But what do we really know about this man? Is there more to his work than that term for political evil, Machiavellianism? It was Machiavelli's luck to be disappointed by every statesman he encountered - that was why he had to create his paper Prince. Today, the question that remains is not why he wrote, but for whom - for princes or for those who want to resist them? What is the art of governing? Is it to take power, or to keep it? In this timely book, Patrick Boucheron undoes many of our assumptions about Machiavelli, showing how his rich, complex thought is key to understanding his time, and may be crucial to interrogating our own.

The Bonds of Humanity - Cicero's Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100-ca. 1550 (Paperback): Cary J... The Bonds of Humanity - Cicero's Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100-ca. 1550 (Paperback)
Cary J Nederman
R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Of the great philosophers of pagan antiquity, Marcus Tullius Cicero is the only one whose ideas were continuously accessible to the Christian West following the collapse of the Roman Empire. Yet, in marked contrast with other ancient philosophers, Cicero has largely been written out of the historical narrative on early European political thought, and the reception of his ideas has barely been studied. The Bonds of Humanity corrects this glaring oversight, arguing that the influence of Cicero's ideas in medieval and early modern Europe was far more pervasive than previously believed. In this book, Cary J. Nederman presents a persuasive counternarrative to the widely accepted belief in the dominance of Aristotelian thought. Surveying the work of a diverse range of thinkers from the twelfth to the sixteenth century, including John of Salisbury, Brunetto Latini, Marsiglio of Padua, Christine de Pizan, and Bartolome de Las Casas, Nederman shows that these men and women inherited, deployed, and adapted key Ciceronian themes. He argues that the rise of scholastic Aristotelianism in the thirteenth century did not supplant but rather supplemented and bolstered Ciceronian ideas, and he identifies the character and limits of Ciceronianism that distinguish it from other schools of philosophy. Highly original and compelling, this paradigm-shifting book will be greeted enthusiastically by students and scholars of early European political thought and intellectual history, particularly those engaged in the conversation about the role played by ancient and early Christian ideas in shaping the theories of later times.

A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues (Paperback): Andre Comte-Sponville A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues (Paperback)
Andre Comte-Sponville; Translated by Catherine Temerson
R573 R474 Discovery Miles 4 740 Save R99 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this graceful, incisive book, writer-philosopher Andre Comte-Sponville reexamines the classical virtues to help us understand "what we should do, who we should be, and how we should live." In the process, he gives us an entirely new perspective on the value, relevance, and charm of the Western ethical tradition. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to Simone Weil, by way of Aquinas, Kant, Rilke, Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Rawls, among others, Comte-Sponville elaborates on the qualities that constitute the essence and excellence of humankind. Starting with politeness-almost a virtue-and ending with love-which transcends all morality-"A Small Treatise" takes us on a tour of the eighteen essential virtues: fidelity, prudence, temperance, courage, justice, generosity, compassion, mercy, gratitude, humility, simplicity, tolerance, purity, gentleness, good faith, and even, surprisingly, humor.
Sophisticated, lucid, and full of wit, this modestly titled yet immensely important work provides an indispensable guide to finding what is right and good in everyday life.

Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta (Paperback, Revised edition): Rene Guenon Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta (Paperback, Revised edition)
Rene Guenon
R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A study of the constitution and development of the human being from the metaphysical point of view, with special reference to Vedantic doctrine.

Four Treatises of Theophrastus Von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus (Paperback, Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed): Paracelsus Four Treatises of Theophrastus Von Hohenheim Called Paracelsus (Paperback, Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed)
Paracelsus; Edited by Henry Sigerest
R757 Discovery Miles 7 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Born near Einsiedeln in 1493, Philip Theophrastus von Hohenheim, who later called himself Paracelsus, was the son of a physician. His thirst for knowledge led him to study arts in Vienna, then medicine in Italy, but the instruction left him disillusioned. He had learned to see nature with his own eyes, undiluted by the teachings of books. He was a rebellious spirit, hard-headed and stubborn, who travelled all over Europe and the British Isles to practice medicine, study local diseases, and learn from any source he could, humble as it might be. In these years of wanderings, Paracelsus developed his own system of medicine and a philosophy of theology all his own. Though he wrote a great many books that covered a wide range of subjects, only a few of his works were ever published in his lifetime. When he died in Salzburg in 1541, one of the most forceful personalities of the Renaissance died with him.

Here are collected four treatises which illustrate four different aspects of Paracelsus' work. The first gives a passionate justification of his character, activities, and views, and gives a picture of the man and his basic ideas. The second treatise is a study of the diseases of miners, with whom Paracelsus had spent a great deal of time. Then follows a treatise on the psychology and psychiatry of Paracelsus. Written at a time when mental diseases were beginning to be studied and treated by physicians, this pioneering essay anticipates a number of modern views. The last essay, entitled "A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other Spirits," is a fanciful and poetic treatment of paganism and Greek mythology, as well as a good sample of Paracelsus' philosophy and theology. Together these essays show one of the most original minds of the Renaissance at the height of his powers.

Viglets - Pithy Wisdom for a Balanced Life (Paperback): Viggo P. Hansen Viglets - Pithy Wisdom for a Balanced Life (Paperback)
Viggo P. Hansen
R212 R177 Discovery Miles 1 770 Save R35 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Historia de La Filosofia Medieval (English, Spanish, Paperback): Rafael Ramon Guerrero Historia de La Filosofia Medieval (English, Spanish, Paperback)
Rafael Ramon Guerrero
R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Book on Human Nature (Paperback): Bo Yin Ra The Book on Human Nature (Paperback)
Bo Yin Ra
R455 R373 Discovery Miles 3 730 Save R82 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Book on the Living God," "The Book on Life Beyond" and this book form a trilogy. These three books should be read together.

"The Book on Human Nature" presents basic concepts about human nature with the goal of inspiring readers to awaken the timeless, spiritual spark within. We become fully human only when the spiritual potential within us gradually awakens and infuses our material, purely animal selves. It is a path that every human being may and should pursue.

A central understanding is that all life results from the joining of opposites, in particular, the polarity of male and female energies. Bo Yin Ra emphasizes that the true spiritual human being is male and female united in one entity; when we seek our spiritual self, we must call forth the male and female in ourselves and in all things. He discusses the biblical fall from grace as a descent from the spiritual plane, in which male and female were united, onto a material plane, in which male and female are split apart.

Bo Yin Ra warns men that holding onto the illusion of male superiority means forfeiting their spiritual life. While the spiritual paths that are natural for men and women are different in tone--open and receptive for women, active and grasping for men--they are equal and complementary. He tells us that "true marriage" is preparation for the life beyond: by coordinating the desires, wills and attitudes of two beings we once again bring about, in some measure, the original state in which male and female energies are united.

" E.W.S., Publisher"

"The Kober Press's translations of the books of Bo Yin Ra are the only English translations authorized by the Kober Verlag, Switzerland. The Kober Verlag publishes the books of Bo Yin Ra in the original German and has protected their integrity since Bo Yin Ra's lifetime."

Contents: Introduction. The Mystery Enshrouding Male and Female. The Path of the Female. The Path of the Male. Marriage. Children. The Human Being of the Age to Come. Epilogue. A Final Word."

The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, v. 6 (Hardcover): Marsilio Ficino The Letters of Marsilio Ficino, v. 6 (Hardcover)
Marsilio Ficino; Translated by Language Department School Of Economic Science; Edited by Clement Salaman
R727 Discovery Miles 7 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) directed the Platonic Academy in Florence, and it was the work of this Academy that gave the Renaissance in the 15th century its impulse and direction. During his childhood Ficino was selected by Cosimo de' Medici for an education in the humanities. Later Cosimo directed him to learn Greek and then to translate all the works of Plato into Latin. This enormous task he completed in about five years. He then wrote two important books, "The Platonic Theology" and "The Christian Religion", showing how the Christian religion and Platonic philosophy were proclaiming the same message. The extraordinary influence the Platonic Academy came to exercise over the age arose from the fact that its leading spirits were already seeking fresh inspiration from the ideals of the civilizations of Greece and Rome and especially from the literary and philosophical sources of those ideals. Florence was the cultural and artistic centre of Europe at the time and leading men in so many fields were drawn to the Academy: Lorenzo de'Medici (Florence's ruler), Alberti (the architect) and Poliziano (the poet). Moreover Ficino bound together an enormous circle of correspondents throughout Europe, from the Pope in Rome to John Colet in London, from Reuchlin in Germany to de Ganay in France. Published during his lifetime, "The Letters" have not previously been translated into English. The sixth volume is set against the backdrop of war between the Italian states in the period 1481-84. The disruption and suffering caused by these wars is reflected in some of the letters, which contain some of Ficino's finest writing.

The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide (Hardcover): Josef Stern The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide (Hardcover)
Josef Stern
R1,902 Discovery Miles 19 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed has traditionally been read as an attempt to harmonize reason and revelation. Another, more recent interpretation takes the contradiction between philosophy and religion to be irreconcilable, and concludes that the Guide prescribes religion for the masses and philosophy for the elite. Moving beyond these familiar debates, Josef Stern argues that the perplexity addressed in this famously enigmatic work is not the conflict between Athens and Jerusalem but the tension between human matter and form, between the body and the intellect. Maimonides' philosophical tradition takes the perfect life to be intellectual: pure, undivided contemplation of all possible truths, from physics and cosmology to metaphysics and God. According to the Guide, this ideal cannot be realized by humans. Their embodied minds cannot achieve scientific knowledge of metaphysics, and their bodily impulses interfere with exclusive contemplation. Closely analyzing the arguments in the Guide and its original use of the parable as a medium of philosophical writing, Stern articulates Maimonides' skepticism about human knowledge of metaphysics and his heterodox interpretations of scriptural and rabbinic parables. Stern shows how, in order to accommodate the conflicting demands of the intellect and the body, Maimonides creates a repertoire of spiritual exercises, reconceiving the Mosaic commandments as training for the life of the embodied mind. By focusing on the philosophical notions of matter and form, and the interplay between its literary form and subject matter, Stern succeeds in developing a unified, novel interpretation of the Guide.

Malebranche: Philosophical Selections (Hardcover): Nicolas Malebranche Malebranche: Philosophical Selections (Hardcover)
Nicolas Malebranche; Edited by Steven Nadler
R1,188 R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Save R100 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These substantial selections from The Search after Truth , Elucidations of the Search after Truth , Dialogues on Metaphysics , and Treatise on Nature and Grace , provide the student of modern philosophy with both a broad view of Malebranche's philosophical system and a detailed picture of his most important doctrines. Malebranche's occasionalism, his theory of knowledge and the 'vision in God', and his writings on theodicy and freedom are solidly represented.

Manipulating People - Learn the art of manipulation and use it (Paperback): Benjamin Spacey Manipulating People - Learn the art of manipulation and use it (Paperback)
Benjamin Spacey
R1,381 Discovery Miles 13 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyle (Hardcover, New Ed): Robert Boyle Selected Philosophical Papers of Robert Boyle (Hardcover, New Ed)
Robert Boyle; Edited by M.A. Stewart
R1,250 R1,134 Discovery Miles 11 340 Save R116 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The availability of a paperback version of Boyle's philosophical writings selected by M. A. Stewart will be a real service to teachers, students, and scholars with seventeenth-century interests. The editor has shown excellent judgment in bringing together many of the most important works and printing them, for the most part, in unabridged form. The texts have been edited responsibly with emphasis on readability. . . . Of special interest in connection with Locke and with the reception of Descarte's Corpuscularianism, to students of the Scientific Revolution and of the history of mechanical philosophy, and to those interested in the relations among science, philosophy, and religion. In fact, given the imperfections in and unavailability of the eighteenth-century editions of Boyle's works, this collection will benefit a wide variety of seventeenth-century scholars." --Gary Hatfield, University of Pennsylvania

Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas (Hardcover): Fran O'Rourke Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas (Hardcover)
Fran O'Rourke
R2,866 Discovery Miles 28 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Although Pseudo-Dionysius was, after Aristotle, the author whom Thomas Aquinas quoted most frequently, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the role of this Neoplatonist thinker in the formation of Aquinas' philosophy. Fran O'Rourke's book is the only available work that investigates the pervasive influence of Pseudo-Dionysius on Aquinas, while at the same time examining the latter's profound originality. Central themes discussed by O'Rourke include knowledge of the absolute, existence as the first and most universal perfection, the diffusion of creation, the hierarchy of creatures, and their return to God as final end. O'Rourke devotes special attention to the Neoplatonist element in Aquinas' notion of "being" as intensity or degree of perfection. He also considers the relation of being and goodness in light of Aquinas' nuanced reversal of Dionysius' theory of the primacy of the good, and Aquinas' arguments for the transcendental nature of goodness.

Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et Latin - Volume 76 (Paperback): Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et Latin - Volume 76 (Paperback)
R870 R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Save R105 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-ge Grec et Latin (CIMAGL) publishes work done in the Department of Greek and Latin at the University of Copenhagen, or in collaboration with the Department. The researchpresented in multi-ligual essaysmainly focuses on the Latin trivium and quadrivium, and Byzantine music.

The Treatise on the Divine Nature - Summa Theologiae I 1-13 (Hardcover): Thomas Aquinas The Treatise on the Divine Nature - Summa Theologiae I 1-13 (Hardcover)
Thomas Aquinas; Translated by Brian J. Shanley; Introduction by Robert Pasnau
R1,489 R1,350 Discovery Miles 13 500 Save R139 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This series offers central philosophical treatises of Aquinas in new, state-of-the-art translations distinguished by their accuracy and use of clear and nontechnical modern vocabulary. Annotation and commentary accessible to undergraduates make the series an ideal vehicle for the study of Aquinas by readers approaching him from a variety of backgrounds and interests.

St. Thomas Aquinas (Hardcover): Ralph McInerny St. Thomas Aquinas (Hardcover)
Ralph McInerny
R2,307 Discovery Miles 23 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Spinoza and Politics (Paperback): Etienne Balibar, Warren Montag Spinoza and Politics (Paperback)
Etienne Balibar, Warren Montag; Translated by Peter Snowdon
R496 R429 Discovery Miles 4 290 Save R67 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la Politique, Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza's major works, admirably demonstrating relevance to his contemporary political life. Balibar carefully situates Spinoza's major treatises in the period in which they were written. In successive chapters, he examines the political situation in the United Provinces during Spinoza's lifetime, Spinoza's own religious and ideological associations, the concept of democracy developed in the Theologico-Political Treatise, the theory of the state advanced in the Political Treatise and the anthropological basis for politics established in the Ethics.

Medieval Nonsense - Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England (Paperback): Jordan Kirk Medieval Nonsense - Signifying Nothing in Fourteenth-Century England (Paperback)
Jordan Kirk
R778 Discovery Miles 7 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Five hundred years before "Jabberwocky" and Tender Buttons, writers were already preoccupied with the question of nonsense. But even as the prevalence in medieval texts of gibberish, babble, birdsong, and allusions to bare voice has come into view in recent years, an impression persists that these phenomena are exceptions that prove the rule of the period's theologically motivated commitment to the kernel of meaning over and against the shell of the mere letter. This book shows that, to the contrary, the foundational object of study of medieval linguistic thought was vox non-significativa, the utterance insofar as it means nothing whatsoever, and that this fact was not lost on medieval writers of various kinds. In a series of close and unorthodox readings of works by Priscian, Boethius, Augustine, Walter Burley, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the anonymous authors of the Cloud of Unknowing and St. Erkenwald, it inquires into the way that a number of fourteenth-century writers recognized possibilities inherent in the accounts of language transmitted to them from antiquity and transformed those accounts into new ideas, forms, and practices of non-signification. Retrieving a premodern hermeneutics of obscurity in order to provide materials for an archeology of the category of the literary, Medieval Nonsense shows how these medieval linguistic textbooks, mystical treatises, and poems were engineered in such a way as to arrest the faculty of interpretation and force it to focus on the extinguishing of sense that occurs in the encounter with language itself.

Andalus and Sefarad - On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain (Hardcover): Sarah Stroumsa Andalus and Sefarad - On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain (Hardcover)
Sarah Stroumsa
R771 Discovery Miles 7 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An integrative approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus Al-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the region's excellence, and indeed it engendered celebrated thinkers such as Maimonides and Averroes. Sarah Stroumsa offers an integrative new approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus, where the cultural commonality of the Islamicate world allowed scholars from diverse religious backgrounds to engage in the same philosophical pursuits. Stroumsa traces the development of philosophy in Muslim Iberia from its introduction to the region to the diverse forms it took over time, from Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism to rational theology and mystical philosophy. She sheds light on the way the politics of the day, including the struggles with the Christians to the north of the peninsula and the Fa t imids in North Africa, influenced philosophy in al-Andalus yet affected its development among the two religious communities in different ways. While acknowledging the dissimilar social status of Muslims and members of the religious minorities, Andalus and Sefarad highlights the common ground that united philosophers, providing new perspective on the development of philosophy in Islamic Spain.

Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics - A Guide (Paperback): David Phillips Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics - A Guide (Paperback)
David Phillips
R989 Discovery Miles 9 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics has been a central part of the utilitarian canon since its publication in 1874. This book, part of the Oxford Guides to Philosophy series, is a concise companion to Sidgwick's masterpiece, written primarily to aid advanced undergraduate students and interested general readers in navigating and interpreting the original text. Author David Phillips connects Sidgwick's work to work in contemporary moral philosophy and in the history of moral philosophy, paying particular attention to his relationships with key predecessors, including Kant and Mill, and with Moore and Ross, his most influential successors in the British intuitionist tradition. The book's first eight chapters end with brief suggestions for further reading. At the end of the final three chapters there are more substantial overviews of the secondary literature on the aspects of Sidgwick's work that have generated the most interest among his commentators: metaethics and moral epistemology; consequentialism versus deontology; and egoism and the dualism of practical reason. The result is an Oxford Guide that will be a helpful resource for both students and scholars.A

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