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Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression - Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback): Marina A L Oshana Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression - Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback)
Marina A L Oshana
R1,527 Discovery Miles 15 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the oppressive circumstances persons must navigate. They address on the one hand questions of the theoretical structure of personal autonomy given various kinds of social oppression, and on the other, how contexts of social oppression make autonomy difficult or impossible.

Thomas Aquinas - A Portrait (Paperback): Denys Turner Thomas Aquinas - A Portrait (Paperback)
Denys Turner
R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas-the man and the saint "A marvellous introduction to the thought of the most daring and most important thinker of the Christian Middle Ages. . . . The best single-volume introduction to St. Thomas."-Eamon Duffy, The Tablet "Rich, provocative and sophisticated, a work of both passion and serious scholarship. It is a triumph."-Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald Leaving so few traces of himself behind, Thomas Aquinas seems to defy the efforts of the biographer. Highly visible as a public teacher, preacher, and theologian, he nevertheless has remained nearly invisible as man and saint. What can be discovered about Thomas Aquinas as a whole? In this short, compelling portrait, Denys Turner clears away the haze of time and brings Thomas vividly to life for contemporary readers-those unfamiliar with the saint as well as those well acquainted with his teachings. Building on the best biographical scholarship available today and reading the works of Thomas with piercing acuity, Turner seeks the point at which the man, the mind, and the soul of Thomas Aquinas intersect. Reflecting upon Thomas, a man of Christian Trinitarian faith yet one whose thought is grounded firmly in the body's interaction with the material world, a thinker at once confident in the powers of human reason and a man of prayer, Turner provides a more detailed human portrait than ever before of one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in all of Western thought.

Die Gottesbeweise (German, Hardcover): Thomas Von Aquin Die Gottesbeweise (German, Hardcover)
Thomas Von Aquin; Edited by Horst Seidl
R1,619 Discovery Miles 16 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers (Paperback): Michael A. Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, Roger W Nutt Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers (Paperback)
Michael A. Dauphinais, Andrew Hofer, Roger W Nutt
R1,883 Discovery Miles 18 830 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Scholars have often been quick to acknowledge Thomas Aquinas's distinctive retrieval of Aristotle's Greek philosophical heritage. Often lagging, however, has been a proper appreciation of both his originality and indebtedness in appropriating the great theological insights of the Greek Fathers of the Church. In a similar way to his integration of the Aristotelian philosophical corpus, Aquinas successfully interwove the often newly received and translated Greek patristic sources into a thirteenth-century theological framework, one dominated by the Latin Fathers. His use of the Greek Fathers definitively shaped his exposition of sacra doctrina in the fundamental areas of God and creation, Trinitarian theology, the moral life, and Christ and the Sacraments. For the sake of filling this lacuna and of piquing scholarly interest in Aquinas's relation to the Fathers of the Christian East, the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies co-sponsored an international gathering of scholars that took place at Ave Maria University under the title Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. Sensitive to the commonalities and the differences between Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, the essays in this volume have sprung from the theme of this conference and offer a harvest of some of the conference's fruits. At long last, scholars have a rich volume of diverse, penetrating essays that both underscore Aquinas's unique standing among the Latin scholastics in relationship to the Greek Fathers and point the way toward avenues of further study.

Individualitat ALS Fundamentalgefuhl (German, Hardcover): Oliver Koch Individualitat ALS Fundamentalgefuhl (German, Hardcover)
Oliver Koch
R2,480 Discovery Miles 24 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Passions of the Soul (Paperback, New Ed): Rene Descartes Passions of the Soul (Paperback, New Ed)
Rene Descartes; Translated by S. H. Voss
R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Sou l: Preface PART I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man PART II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives PART III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index Locorum

Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy (Hardcover): Gyula Klima Intentionality, Cognition, and Mental Representation in Medieval Philosophy (Hardcover)
Gyula Klima
R4,113 Discovery Miles 41 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is commonly supposed that certain elements of medieval philosophy are uncharacteristically preserved in modern philosophical thought through the idea that mental phenomena are distinguished from physical phenomena by their intentionality, their intrinsic directedness toward some object. The many exceptions to this presumption, however, threaten its viability.
This volume explores the intricacies and varieties of the conceptual relationships medieval thinkers developed among intentionality, cognition, and mental representation. Ranging from Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Buridan through less-familiar writers, the collection sheds new light on the various strands that run between medieval and modern thought and bring us to a number of fundamental questions in the philosophy of mind as it is conceived today.

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard - A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (Paperback): M.... The Letters of Heloise and Abelard - A Translation of Their Collected Correspondence and Related Writings (Paperback)
M. McLaughlin, B Wheeler
R2,896 Discovery Miles 28 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while they, themselves, are probably second only to Romeo and Juliet in the fame accrued by tragic lovers. Here for the first time in Mart Martin McLaughlin's edition is the complete correspendence with commentary.

Leibniz und Guericke im Diskurs (German, Hardcover): Otto Guericke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Leibniz und Guericke im Diskurs (German, Hardcover)
Otto Guericke, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Edited by Berthold Heinecke, Wolfram Knapp, Paolo Rubini, …
R3,481 Discovery Miles 34 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Hardcover): Steven Nadler Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Hardcover)
Steven Nadler
R2,821 Discovery Miles 28 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Over the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays in this volume, by Spinoza specialists and leading scholars in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy, consider the various dimensions of the rich, important, but vastly under-studied relationship between Spinoza and earlier Jewish thinkers. It is the first such collection in any language, and together the essays provide a detailed and extensive analysis of how different elements in Spinoza's metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political and religious thought relate to the views of his Jewish philosophical forebears, such as Maimonides, Gersonides, Ibn Ezra, Crescas, and others. The topics addressed include the immortality of the soul, the nature of God, the intellectual love of God, moral luck, the nature of happiness, determinism and free will, the interpretation of Scripture, and the politics of religion.

Aquinas's Philosophy of Religion (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014): P. O'grady Aquinas's Philosophy of Religion (Paperback, 1st ed. 2014)
P. O'grady
R2,092 Discovery Miles 20 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is an exploration and analysis of Aquinas's contribution to the philosophy of religion. It examines Aquinas's contexts, his views on philosophy and theology, as well as faith and reason. His arguments for God's existence, responses to objections against God's existence and his characterization of the nature of God are examined.

Nominalism and Contemporary Nominalism - Ontological and Epistemological Implications of the work of W.V.O. Quine and of N.... Nominalism and Contemporary Nominalism - Ontological and Epistemological Implications of the work of W.V.O. Quine and of N. Goodman (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)
M. Gosselin
R2,868 Discovery Miles 28 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Though the subject of this work, "nominalism and contemporary nom inalism," is philosophical, it cannot be fully treated without relating it to data gathered from a great variety of domains, such as biology and more especially ethology, psychology, linguistics and neurobiology. The source of inspiration has been an academic work I wrote in order to obtain a postdoctoral degree, which is called in Belgium an "Aggregaat voor het Hoger Onderwijs" comparable to a "Habilitation" in Germany. I want to thank the National Fund of Scientific Research, which accorded me several grants and thereby enabled me to write the academic work in the first place and thereafter this book. I also want to thank Prof. SJ. Doorman (Technical University of Delft) and Prof. G. Nuchelmans (University of Leiden), who were members of the jury of the "Aggre gaatsthesis," presented to the Free University of Brussels in 1981 and who by their criticisms and suggestions encouraged me to write the present book, the core of which is constituted by the general ideas then formulated. I am further obliged to Mr. X, the referee who was asked by Jaakko Hintikka to read my work and who made a series of constructive remarks and recom mendations. My colleague Marc De Mey (University of Ghent) helped me greatly with the more formal aspects of my work and spent too much of his valuable time and energy to enable me to deliver a presentable copy. All remaining shortcomings are entirely my responsibility. I asked Prof."

Women's Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions - Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Foremothers (Paperback,... Women's Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions - Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Foremothers (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
Kari Elisabeth Borresen, K. Vogt
R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this collection of articles, Kari Elisabeth Borresen and Kari Vogt point out the convergence of androcentric gender models in the Christian and Islamic traditions. They provide extensive surveys of recent research in women's studies, with bio-socio-cultural genderedness as their main analytical category. Matristic writers from late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are analysed in terms of a female God language, reshaping traditional theology. The persisting androcentrism of 20th-century Christianity and Islam, as displayed in institutional documents promoting women's specific functions, is critically exposed. This volume presents a pioneering investigation of correlated Christian and Islamic gender models which has hitherto remained uncompared by women's studies in religion. This work will serve scholars and students in the humanistic disciplines of theology, religious studies, Islamic studies, history of ideas, Medieval philosophy and women's history. "

The Essential Galileo (Paperback): Galileo Galilei The Essential Galileo (Paperback)
Galileo Galilei; Edited by Maurice A. Finocchiaro
R482 Discovery Miles 4 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career while also letting him speak--in clear English. No other volume offers more convenient or more reliable access to Galileo's own words, whether on the telescope, the Dialogue, the trial, or the mature theory of motion. --Michael H. Shank, Professor of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin--Madison

Contra Academicos, De beata vita, De ordine (Latin, Hardcover): Therese Aurelius Augustinus Fuhrer Contra Academicos, De beata vita, De ordine (Latin, Hardcover)
Therese Aurelius Augustinus Fuhrer
R2,565 Discovery Miles 25 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Warum Gott Mensch geworden (German, Hardcover): Anselm Von Canterbury Warum Gott Mensch geworden (German, Hardcover)
Anselm Von Canterbury
R877 Discovery Miles 8 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Vom Wissen Christi (German, Hardcover): "Bonaventura" Vom Wissen Christi (German, Hardcover)
"Bonaventura"; Edited by Andreas Speer
R2,048 Discovery Miles 20 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500 (Paperback, 2011 ed.): Karen Green, Constant Mews Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500 (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
Karen Green, Constant Mews
R2,862 Discovery Miles 28 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book locates Christine de Pizan's argument that women are virtuous members of the political community within the context of earlier discussions of the relative virtues of men and women. It is the first to explore how women were represented and addressed within medieval discussions of the virtues. It introduces readers to the little studied "Speculum Dominarum" (Mirror of Ladies), a mirror for a princess, compiled for Jeanne of Navarre, which circulated in the courtly milieu that nurtured Christine.Throwing new light on the way in which Medieval women understood the virtues, and were represented by others as virtuous subjects, itpositions the ethical ideas of Anne of France, Laura Cereta, Marguerite of Navarre and the Dames de la Roche within an evolving discourse on the virtues that is marked by the transition from Medieval to Renaissance thought.
"Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500" will be of interest to those studying virtue ethics, the history of women's ideas and Medieval and Renaissance thought in general."

Geschichte Der Mittelalterlichen Philosophie Im Christlichen Abendland (German, Hardcover): Franz Brentano Geschichte Der Mittelalterlichen Philosophie Im Christlichen Abendland (German, Hardcover)
Franz Brentano; Edited by Klaus Hedwig
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge (Hardcover, New): Therese Scarpelli Cory Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge (Hardcover, New)
Therese Scarpelli Cory
R2,821 Discovery Miles 28 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Self-knowledge is commonly thought to have become a topic of serious philosophical inquiry during the early modern period. Already in the thirteenth century, however, the medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas developed a sophisticated theory of self-knowledge, which Therese Scarpelli Cory presents as a project of reconciling the conflicting phenomena of self-opacity and privileged self-access. Situating Aquinas's theory within the mid-thirteenth-century debate and his own maturing thought on human nature, Cory investigates the kinds of self-knowledge that Aquinas describes and the questions they raise. She shows that to a degree remarkable in a medieval thinker, self-knowledge turns out to be central to Aquinas's account of cognition and personhood, and that his theory provides tools for considering intentionality, reflexivity and selfhood. Her engaging account of this neglected aspect of medieval philosophy will interest readers studying Aquinas and the history of medieval philosophy more generally.

Maimonides and Philosophy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986): S Pines, Y. Yovel Maimonides and Philosophy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)
S Pines, Y. Yovel
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the year 1985, presumed to mark the 850th anniversary of Maimonides' birth, the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was dedicated to Maim onides as philosopher. We did not enter into the other aspects of his work, rabbinical, legal, medical, etc., except in so far as the relation between his philosophy and his work in halakha (Jewish law) is itself a philosophical question. That no one is quite certain about Maimonides' date of birth is symbolic of the state of his philosophy as well. Maimonides' thought poses various enigmas, lends itself to contradictory interpretations and gives rise today, as it did in the Middle Ages, to sustained controversies. Some of the contribu tions to the present volume deal with these and cognate topics. Others deal with certain aspects of the philosophical tradition in which Maimonides was rooted, with some traits peculiar to the Islamic society in the midst of which he lived, and with his influence on Christian scholasticism. Maimonides' thought had many facets, and for this and other reasons the question as to his place and stature in the history of philosophy admits of no simple answer. In this volume an attempt has been made to draw atten tion to some of these complexities."

The Medieval Latin Translation of the Data of Euclid (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980): Shuntaro Ito The Medieval Latin Translation of the Data of Euclid (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980)
Shuntaro Ito
R1,510 Discovery Miles 15 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar - Acts of the Ninth European Symposium for Medieval Logic and Semantics, held at St... Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar - Acts of the Ninth European Symposium for Medieval Logic and Semantics, held at St Andrews, June 1990 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)
St Read
R5,627 Discovery Miles 56 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The first Symposium consisted of three people in a cafe in Warsaw in 1973. Since then, meetings have grown in size and have been held in Leyden, Copenhagen, Nijmegen, Rome, Oxford, Poitiers and Freiburg am-Breisgau. The ninth Symposium was held in St Andrews in June 1990, with 57 participants who listened to addresses by 28 speakers. It was very fitting that Scotland's oldest university, founded in the heyday of medievalleaming in 1411, should have been given the chance to bring together scholars from all over Europe and beyond to present their researches on the glorious past of scholastic rational thought. The topic of the Symposium was "Sophisms in Medieval Logic and Grammar". The present volume consists, for the most part, of the papers presented at the Symposium. In fact, however, it proved impossible to include five of the contributions. Two of the papers included here were intended for the Symposium but in the event not delivered, because of the unavoidable absence of the speakers. The Symposium received very helpful financial support from one of the major philosophical associations in Britain, the Mind Association, from the Philosophical Quarterly, a journal published at St Andrews, from the University of St Andrews, from the British Academy, and from Low and Bonarplc. In organising the programme for the conference and in preparing the papers for publication I received invaluable help from: Professor E.J.

Treatise on Divine Predestination (Hardcover): John Scottus Eriugena Treatise on Divine Predestination (Hardcover)
John Scottus Eriugena; Translated by Mary Brennan
R2,917 Discovery Miles 29 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Treatise on Divine Predestination is one of the early writings of the author of the great philosophical work Periphyseon (On the Division of Nature), Johannes Scottus (the Irishman), known as Eriugena (died c. 877 A.D.). It contributes to the age-old debate on the question of human destiny in the present world and in the afterlife.

Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics (Hardcover, New): Tobias Hoffmann, Joern Muller, Matthias Perkams Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics (Hardcover, New)
Tobias Hoffmann, Joern Muller, Matthias Perkams
R2,824 Discovery Miles 28 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of morality, and the nature of pleasure. They examine Aquinas's commentary on the Ethics and his theological writings, above all the Summa theologiae. Their essays show Aquinas to be a highly perceptive interpreter, but one who also who also brings certain presuppositions to the Ethics and alters key Aristotelian notions for his own purposes. The result is a rich and nuanced picture of Aquinas's relation to Aristotle that will be of interest to readers in moral philosophy, Aquinas studies, the history of theology, and the history of philosophy.

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