Vestlig filosofi ca. 500 - 1600

This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy-the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the…

I översättning och med inledning av Birgit Helander. Nicolaus Cusanus (1401-1464) var en av tidens ledande kyrkoledare tillika med framstående författare inom mystikens teologi. I Gudsseendet försöker Cusanus leda läsaren i en praktisk handledning t…

Michel de Montaigne (15331592) utgav den första upplagan av sina Essayer 1580. Under de följande åren fortsatte han att arbeta med verket, som utgavs i alltmer utvidgade upplagor. Jan Stolpe översatte alla tre böckerna 19861992, och de är sedan fler…

Humanism is a philosophy that emphasizes the value of human life in all its creative potential within a secular context. Humanism is skeptical of religious beliefs and relies on science as the basis for understanding the universe. Although humanism…

One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the history of Western thought, St Thomas Aquinas established the foundations for much of modern philosophy of religion, and is infamous for his arguments for the existence of God. In this…

Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theolo…

"Francis Bacon var den förste som insåg vetenskapens betydelse för samhället. Han var själv både filosof och politiker, men hans stora insats ligger i skärningspunkten mellan dessa två verksamheter. Han gjorde vetenskapen till en samhällelig faktor…

More's Utopia is a complex, innovative and penetrating contribution to political thought, culminating in the famous 'description' of the Utopians, who live according to the principles of natural law, but are receptive to Christian teachings, who hol…

Michel de Montaigne (15331592) utgav den första upplagan av sina Essayer 1580. Under de följande åren fortsatte han att arbeta med verket, som utgavs i alltmer utvidgade upplagor. Jan Stolpe översatte alla tre böckerna 19861992, och de är sedan fler…

More than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285–1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and secular-political institutions should normally operate independently of one another. Today, when this a…

More than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and secular-political institutions should normally operate independently of one another. When this assumption is…

This is a reprint of the Nelson edition with Latin texts and English translations on facing pages. Contents include: Concerning Metaphysics, Man's Knowledge of God, The Existence of God, The Unicity of God, Concerning Human Knowledge, and The Spirit…

This translation of 34 selections of texts on the will and morality from writings by Duns Scotus - the early 14th-century Franciscan master - seeks to demonstrate the rational unity and consistency of Scotus' moral philosophy and its accessibility t…

Renaissance Thought is a fascinating collection of essays on the Renaissance, focussing on humanism and thought. The concept of the Renaissance has always been challenging to define. This book enables a deeper understanding of the essential features…

Renaissance Thought is a fascinating collection of essays on the Renaissance, focussing on humanism and thought. The concept of the Renaissance has always been challenging to define. This book enables a deeper understanding of the essential features…

Michel de Montaigne (15331592) utgav den första upplagan av sina Essayer 1580. Under de följande åren fortsatte han att arbeta med verket, som utgavs i alltmer utvidgade upplagor. Jan Stolpe översatte alla tre böckerna 19861992, och de är sedan fler…

Ruth Glasner presents an illuminating reappraisal of Averroes' physics. Glasner is the first scholar to base her interpretation on the full range of Averroes' writings, including texts that are extant only in Hebrew manuscripts and have not been hit…

Renaissance Truth and the Latin Language Turn provides an entirely new look at an era of radical change in the history of West European thought, the period between 1480 and 1540, mainly in France and Germany. The lens for this novel perspective is t…

The first of a two-volume anthology containing new translations of important works on moral philosophy written during the Renaissance.

Thomas Wylton's Quaestio de anima intellectiva is one of the most significant medieval treatments of the intellectual soul. This edition of the Latin text is accompanied by an en face English translation by Gail Trimble. The detailed introduction gu…

During the seventeenth century Francisco Suarez was considered one of the greatest philosophers of the age. He was the last great Scholastic thinker and profoundly influenced the thought of his contemporaries within both Catholic and Protestant circ…

This book explores both the embodied nature of social life and the social nature of human bodily life. It provides an accessible review of the contemporary social science debates on the body, and develops a coherent new perspective. Nick Crossley cr…

This provocative volume, one of the most important interpretive works on the philosophical thought of the Renaissance, has long been regarded as a classic in its field. Ernst Cassirer here examines the changes brewing in the early stages of the Rena…

With "The Lucretian Renaissance", Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of…

Dennis Wholey's astounding "New York Times" bestseller, "The Courage to Change, " emerged as a classic in the field of recovery and personal growth. Now, the acclaimed PBS talk show interviewer explores the emotional and spiritual aspects of change…

The Continuum History of Philosophy series offers concise and accessible introductions to the key periods in the history of philosophical thought. Designed specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students, each book provides a comprehensive…

The Continuum History of Philosophy series offers concise and accessible introductions to the key periods in the history of philosophical thought. Designed specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students, each book provides a comprehensive…

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) was a genuine midwife of modernity. He was one of the first thinkers to visualise a future which would be guided by a cooperative science-based vision of bettering human welfare. In this the first critical edition of his gr…

This volume begins with excerpts from Aquinas' commentary on De Anima, excerpts that proceed from a general consideration of soul as common to all living things to a consideration of the animal soul and, finally, to what is peculiar to the human sou…

If you take a walk in the woods on a winter morning and see the sun sparkle and glimmer in the newly fallen snow, or if you sit one morning on the pier with the one you love and watch the glowing sun rise above the sea, you may suddenly think that t…

Studies in Seventeenth-Century European Philosophy is a collection of new, specially written essays on the flowering of modern philosophy on the continent of Europe. It is the second volume in a series designed to combine historical and analytical c…

Edited with a facing-page translation from the Latin text by: Butler, H. E.; Unknown function: Millor, W. J.

The impact of classical thought on Renaissance philosophy is the subject of this volume. In the first part Dr Kraye deals with the interpretations of ancient philosophy put forward by various thinkers of the Italian Renaissance, including the humani…

"The point of view, which we choose for our treatment in these lectures, is that of the relational aspects in mediaeval philosophy a study which relates the philosophy to the other factors in that civilisation taken as an organic whole. We shall be…

In this incisive study, John F. X. Knasas grounds the ideal of tolerance in Aquinas' natural law ethics and connects the virtue of civic tolerance to the concept of being. If God is the source of being, argues Knasas, then we are the articulation of…

Giordano Bruno's "Cabala del Cavallo Pegaseo" ("The Cabala of Pegasus") grew out of the Italian philosopher's experiences lecturing and debating at Oxford in early 1584. This volume contains both the English and Italian versions of the work as well…

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 disillus…