This anthology provides a set of distinctive, influential views that explore the mysteries of human nature from a variety of perspectives. It can b...

This anthology provides a set of distinctive, influential views that explore the mysteries of human nature from a variety of perspectives. It can b...

This volume is based on the ongoing studies on post-Avicennian philosophy in the context of naturalising philosophy and science in Islam from the 1...

Although Leibniz's writing forms an enormous corpus, no single work stands as a canonical expression of his whole philosophy. In addition, the wide...

A reprint of the Cambridge University Press edition of 1976, with new introduction by the author.

Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was nev...

These substantial selections from The Search after Truth , Elucidations of the Search after Truth , Dialogues on Metaphysics , and Treatise on Natu...

Written in 1159 and addressed to Thomas Becket, John of Salisbury's The Metalogicon presents -- and defends -- a thorough study of the liberal arts...

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...

A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the...

The essential political writings of Montesquieu--a substantial abridgment of The Spirit of the Laws, plus judicious selections from The Persian Let...

This book describes how nonsense in our daily living are dilemmas beyond our handling, which thereby makes us realise our nonsense is our access to...

This volume contains selections of Ockham's philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and e...

The selections included in this anthology, drawn from a variety of Aquinas' works, focus on the roles of reason and faith in philosophy and theolog...

The selections included in this anthology, drawn from a variety of Aquinas' works, focus on the roles of reason and faith in philosophy and theolog...

This volume begins with excerpts from Aquinas' commentary on De Anima, excerpts that proceed from a general consideration of soul as common to all ...

This volume begins with excerpts from Aquinas' commentary on De Anima, excerpts that proceed from a general consideration of soul as common to all ...

The second edition of Aquinas, On Law, Morality, and Politics retains the selection of texts presented in the first edition but offers them in new...

Reflecting the broad range of interests of a major Renaissance philosopher and his distinctive brand of syncretism, this anthology offers in their ...

Reflecting the broad range of interests of a major Renaissance philosopher and his distinctive brand of syncretism, this anthology offers in their ...

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 ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Sou l: Preface PART I: About the Passio...

A classic work of the European Enlightenment--and one of the most popular, if scandalous, in its day--the Persian Letters captures, in an engaging ...

A classic work of the European Enlightenment--and one of the most popular, if scandalous, in its day--the Persian Letters captures, in an engaging ...

Thomas Williams' revision of Arthur Hyman and James J. Walsh's classic compendium of writings in the Christian, Islamic, and Jewish medieval philos...

Althusius's "Politics Methodically Set Forth and Illustrated with Sacred and Profane Examples", known today simply as "Politica" or Althusius's "Po...

Althusius's "Politics Methodically Set Forth and Illustrated with Sacred and Profane Examples", known today simply as "Politica" or Althusius's "Po...

Includes an introduction by Marilyn McCord Adams along with Notes and Appendices.

Designed to include all of the texts from Presocratics through Machiavelli likely to be read in an undergraduate course on classical political thou...

Designed to include all of the texts from Presocratics through Machiavelli likely to be read in an undergraduate course on classical political thou...

A reprint of the Routledge edition of Medieval Political Theory, a Reader: The Quest for the Body Politic, 1100-1400. This anthology includes writi...

A reprint of the Routledge edition of Medieval Political Theory, a Reader: The Quest for the Body Politic, 1100-1400. This anthology includes writi...

By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and ...

By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and ...

Aristotle is generally considered as a philosopher whose authority characterised the Middle Ages. However, in the sixteenth century alone, more wor...

"The availability of a paperback version of Boyle's philosophical writings selected by M. A. Stewart will be a real service to teachers, students, ...

Richard J. Regan's new translation of texts from Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica IIâ€II--on the virtues prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperan...

Richard J. Regan's new translation of texts from Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica IIâ€II--on the virtues prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperan...

Though better known today as a political theorist than as a dramatist, Machiavelli secured his fame as a giant in the history of Italian comedy mor...

Rethinking humanity as a concept in our age of globalization and its relevance to the social and political reality of our times are the topic of th...

Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career wh...

Finocchiaro's new and revised translations have done what the Inquisition could not: they have captured an exceptional range of Galileo's career wh...

Based on the 1758 edition, this translation strives for fidelity and retains Montesquieu's paragraphing. George R. Healy's Introduction discusses T...

Based on the 1758 edition, this translation strives for fidelity and retains Montesquieu's paragraphing. George R. Healy's Introduction discusses T...

"This is an excellent, readable and vigorous translation of The Prince , but it is much more than simply a translation. The map, notes and guide to...

"This is an excellent, readable and vigorous translation of The Prince , but it is much more than simply a translation. The map, notes and guide to...

To investigate the imaginative leaps of so agile and incisive a mind as Machiavelli's one needs as much commentary about history, political theory,...

To investigate the imaginative leaps of so agile and incisive a mind as Machiavelli's one needs as much commentary about history, political theory,...