This book consists of editions and translations of the three known texts in which Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1150) address......more

Augustine, probably the single thinker who did the most to Christianize the classical learning of ancient Greece and Rom......more

The essays in this book discuss a number of the central metaphysical and ethical themes that engaged the minds of Platon......more

This new critique of Aquinas’s theory of natural law presents an incisive, new analysis of the central themes and releva......more

For the scholastic philosopher William Ockham (c. 1285-1347), there are three kinds of heresy. The first, and most unmis......more

Classics of Philosophy: Volume I, Ancient and Medieval covers the works of philosophers from Thales to William of Ockham......more

First published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, a......more

An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas is an accessible Aquinas and a solid entry into his work. The f......more

In this remarkable work, Reiner Schürmann shows Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century Christian mystic, as the great t......more

The Middle Ages span a period of well over a millennium: from the emperor Constantine’s Christian conversion in 312 to t......more

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This book offers a major reassessment of the philosophy of Peter Abelard (1079-1142), which shows that he was a far more......more

Takes the student step-by-step through the intellectual problems of Medieval thought, explaining the principal lines of ......more

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By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, ......more

The African Christian Roho religion, or Holy Spirit movement, is a charismatic and prophetic movement that arose in the ......more

The most comprehensive collection of its kind, this unique anthology presents fifty-four readings--many of them not wide......more

Ramon Llull (1232-1316), born on Majorca, was one of the most remarkable lay intellectuals of the thirteenth century. He......more

G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually an......more

A groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors....more

Christianity began as a little-known Jewish sect, but rose within 300 years to dominate the civilized world. It owed its......more

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For the Greeks and Romans the earth’s farthest perimeter was a realm radically different from what they perceived as cen......more

This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas though written in the thirteenth century have much to offer th......more

It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called "Platonic" and "Neoplatonic" played a cruc......more

"It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called ’Platonic’ and ’Neoplatonic’ played a cru......more

In this final edition of his classic study of St. Thomas Aquinas, Etienne Gilson presents the sweeping range and organic......more

For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works......more

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Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century woman, describes her relationship with God as a mutual loving in which God and she affec......more

In this translation of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s The Treatise on Law, R. J. Henle, S.J., a well-known authority on philosop......more

In the ancient world being a philosopher was a practical alternative to being a christian. Philosophical systems offered......more

This volume presents a critical edition of the final parts of Bate’s Speculum. In these parts, which constitute the culm......more

The attribution of the Speculum Astronomiae to Albertus Magnus became a controversial issue only recently, when the grea......more

This book takes a fresh look at two of the most controversial topics in Hobbes’s philosophy: morality and sovereignty. I......more

In the great libraries of Europe and the United States, hidden in fading manuscripts on forgotten shelves, lie the works......more

This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a......more

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The editon of Henry of Ghent s Quodlibet VII makes available the critical text of an influential work. Written near the ......more

Theophrastus of Eresus was Aristotle’s pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School. He is best known as the au......more

edited by Mary Ellen Waithe Series: HISTORY OF WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS volume: 3...more

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Though the subject of this work, "nominalism and contemporary nom- inalism", is philosophical, it cannot be fully treate......more

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This bilingual edition of Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy is aimed both specifically at serious students and ......more

In this classic work, Frederick C. Copleston, S.J., outlines the development of philosophical reflection in Christian, I......more

In this study of the relationship between Boethius and Thomas Aquinas, Ralph McInerny dispels the notion that Aquinas mi......more

William Ockham is probably the most notorious and most widely misunderstood philosopher of the later Middle Ages. Accuse......more

Thomism is solidly based on the assumption that we know the world first through our senses and then through concepts for......more

Thomism is solidly based on the assumption that we know the world first through our senses and then through concepts for......more

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The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the......more

The 9th-century Irish scholar Johannes Scottus Eriugena’s main work, Periphyseon (de devisione naturae) is a remarkable ......more

Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, the sequel to After Virtue, is a persuasive argument of there not being rationality t......more

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....more

These selections from Le syst me du monde, the classic ten-volume history of the physical sciences written by the great ......more

"It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called ’Platonic’ and ’Neoplatonic’ played a cru......more

It is generally agreed that those types of philosophy that are loosely called "Platonic" and "Neoplatonic" played a cruc......more

Meister Eckhart was a thirteenth-century Dominican mystic who became famous as a teacher, thinker, and preacher. His bri......more

The Treatise on Happiness and the accompanying Treatise on Human Acts comprise the first twenty-one questions of I-II of......more

3 lectures, Dornach, May 1920 (CW 74) Steiner begins these three lectures by depicting the background of early Christian......more

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Translated into English for the first time, the writings of the twentieth-century scholar Annelise Maier on late medieva......more

Father Bettoni shows how the Bonaventure view became a guide for all reformers of the Franciscan order and illustrates t......more

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"This is the third edition of a near standard survey of the intellectual life of the age of faith. Artz on the arts, as ......more

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In Ciceronis Topica and De topicis differentiis are Boethius s two treatises on Topics (loci). Together these two works ......more

Book Two of the Summa Contra Gentiles series examines God’s freedom in creation, his power as creator of all things, and......more

Book Two of the Summa Contra Gentiles series examines God’s freedom in creation, his power as creator of all things, and......more

Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on Philosophy, Science, and Technology in the Middle Ages - September ......more

Book One of the Summa Contra Gentiles series studies God’s existence, nature, and substance, his perfect actuality, the ......more

Book One of the Summa Contra Gentiles series studies God’s existence, nature, and substance, his perfect actuality, the ......more