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Philosophy and Art
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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The 13 essays in this collection are marked by a diversity of philosophical styles and perspectives on art. While some authors focus on specific forms of art, others are more concerned with the interpretation given to art by past and contemporary philosophers and artists. In some essays nothing …
Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas
Häftad, 1995
331 kr
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In this volume, John Wippel has collected a number of his essays dealing with Aquinas's metaphysical thought. The volume begins with a presentation and critical evaluation of certain twentieth-century attempts to describe the philosophical thought of Thomas Aquinas as a "Christian philosophy." The …
Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present
Av Tobias Hoffman, Tobias Hoffmann
Inbunden, 2008
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In thirteen original essays, eminent scholars of the history of philosophy and of contemporary philosophy examine weakness of will, or incontinence - the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's better judgment. The volume covers all major periods of western philosophy, from antiquity through the …
Ultimate Why Question
Why Is There Anything at All Rather Than Nothing Whatsoever?
Av John F. Wippel, John F. Wippel
Inbunden, 2011
852 kr
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This volume gathers studies by prominent scholars and philosophers about the question how have major figures from the history of philosophy, and some contemporary philosophers, addressed ""the ultimate why question"": why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever? The authors take …
Science of Being As Being
Metaphysical Investigations
Av Gregory T. Doolan, Gregory T. Doolan
Inbunden, 2012
844 kr
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Metaphysics, the science of being as being, is the subject of this volume composed in honour of John F. Wippel, the Theodore Basselin Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, and an internationally prominent metaphysician and expert in medieval philosophy. Scholars present …
Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas II
Häftad, 2014
387 kr
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This volume contains eleven articles and book chapters written by John Wippel since the publication of his Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas in 1984. Many of them have also been published since the completion of his The Metaphysical Thought of Thomas Aquinas: From Finite Being to Uncreated …
Beautiful, the True and the Good
Studies in the History of Thought
Inbunden, 2015
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How do we understand the notions of the beautiful, the true, and the good, and how do they help us to know, to understand? Philosopher Robert E. Wood considers appeal respectively to the heart, to the intellect, and to the will. In our minds, their interplay beckons each of us to assimilate one’s …
Human Nature, Ritual, and History
Studies in Xunzi and Chinese Philosophy
Häftad, 2014
387 kr
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In this volume, distinguished philosopher Antonio S. Cua offers a collection of original studies on Xunzi, a leading classical Confucian thinker, and on other aspects of Chinese philosophy. While each essay individually makes an important contribution to the study of Chinese philosophy, the book as …
Form and Being
Studies in Thomistic Metaphysics
Häftad, 2014
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This volume in the Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy series contains thirteen essays by Lawrence Dewan on metaphysics, the vision of reality from the viewpoint of being. While they take the form of interpretations of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, they are meant as a contribution …
Texture of Being
Essays in First Philosophy
Av Kenneth L. Schmitz, Paul O'Herron
Häftad, 2020
387 kr
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Kenneth Schmitz has spent an illustrious career as a philosopher striving to unite what Hegel called the ""being of the ancients""--their deep engagement with metaphysics--to ""the subjectivity of the moderns""--the modern concern with the interior life and historical particularity of human beings. …
Heidegger's Question of Being
Dasein, Truth, and History
Inbunden, 2017
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The number of open and controversial questions in contemporary Heidegger research continues to be a source of scholarly dialogue. There are important questions that concern the development, as it were, of his thought and the differences and similarities between his early main work Being and Time …
Emergence of German Idealism
Av Micheal Baur, Daniel O. Dahlstrom
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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Immanuel Kant's ""critical philosophy"" is rightly renowned for its criticism of the metaphysical pretensions of reason unaided by experience. It therefore seems ironic that, within a single generation, some of Kant's most important followers argued that the critical philosophy could be made fully …
Modern Enlightenment and the Rule of Reason
Häftad, 2018
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The essays in this volume pose the question common usage has obscured: was ""the Enlightenment"" truly enlightened or enlightening? Scholarly investigation has sometimes avoided the question by confining itself to historical particulars of 18th-century Europe. Yet the most visible proponents of the …
Moral Vision and Tradition
Essays in Chinese Ethics
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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This volume offers a comprehensive philosophical study of Confucian ethics-its basic insights and its relevance to contemporary Western moral philosophy. Distinguished writer and philosopher A. S. Cua presents fourteen essays which deal with various problems arising in the philosophical explication …
Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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This study of the questions of final causality is arranged in historical order from Aristotle to contemporary anthropic-principle cosmology. It discusses such teleological issues as chance and providence, and Aristotle's definition of nature in relation to extrinsic efficient and final causes.
Hispanic Philosophy in the Age of Discovery
Av Kevin White
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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This volume presents 15 studies occasioned by the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of America. It covers both the initial encounters between the Europeans and native Americans and the golden age of Hispanic philosophy that followed the discovery - specifically between 1500 and 1650.
Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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The ten essays in this collection approach the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas not merely as an object of scholarly interest but also as a framework for addressing perennial philosophical questions, even as they are raised and debated in our own times. The first five articles are expositions of …
Aristotle in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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Consisting of nine studies, this volume presents a series of specific insights on Aristotle's influence from Plotinus through Arabic thought.
Recapitulations
Essays in Philosophy
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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Provides commentary on prominent philosophers on important philosophical themes. ""These unusual and exquisite essays focus on a problem or a text with extraordinary acuity"".
Prospects for Natural Theology
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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Natural theology, which suffered significantly in the eighteenth century as a result of the criticisms of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, appeared to be a terminal patient in the mid-twentieth century in the 1960s, however philosophers and theologians began to give renewed attention to the kinds of …
Revolution and Continuity
Essays in the History and Philosophy of Early Modern Science
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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This volume presents new work in history and historiography to the increasingly broad audience for studies of the history and philosophy of science. These essays are linked by a concern to understand the context of early modern science in its own context. The papers presented in this volume form …
Nature and Scientific Method
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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The present volume is a collection of systematic and historical studies addressing the terms of Aristotelian inference.
Towards a Christian Philosophy
Av Joseph Owens
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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Brings together a lifetime of work on the problems presented by the notion of a Christian philosophy, debates whether a Christian philosophy is possible, and outlines the steps for its development.
Swimming Against the Current in Contemporary Philosophy
Occasional Essays and Papers
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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Collected essays of Prof. Henry B. Veatch, distinguished philosopher and teacher. Examines a variety of topics, including the works of Quine, Rorty, Gewirth, and Finnis as well as a variety of topics such as ethical egoism, libertarianism, the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, ethics, the …
Edmund Husserl and the Phenomenological Tradition
Essays in Phenomenology
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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A collection of papers meant to illustrate the richness of Edmund Husserl's own work and the tradition he began.
Being and Predication
Essays in Phenomenology
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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Brings together articles that influenced the scholarly work of Ralph McInerny.
Philosophy of Nature
Av Ivor Leclerc
Häftad, 2018
387 kr
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The philosophy of nature is a field of inquiry which had been a casualty of the increasing and dominant acceptance from the early 19th century of the conception of physics as a mechanics.
