Hardcover. Philadelphia PA, United Lutheran Publication House, 1st, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 355 pages, b&w illustration. Dark green cloth with gilt design, lettering.
Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Honolulu, HI, East-West Press, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Translated with an introduction by Robert Schinzinger. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light wear to dust jacket with slight scratch to rear cover and small tear to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. La Salle, Illinois, Open Court, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 151 pages. No. 14 of the Paul Carus Lecture Series. Tears on dust jacket and some foxing on rear of dust jacket. Dust jacket rubbing on front. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Small notes and markings in pencil on about 20 pages. Light creasing on top edge. Nice reading copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 381 pages. Hardcover. Deep red cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board, label (price tag?) residue to bottom right corner of back cover board. B/w illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. Spain, Editorial Escudo de Oro. S.A., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 93 pages. Softcover. Mild soiling throughout. An otherwise unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color photographs throughout.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 1176 pages. We live in an age of disenchantment. The number of self-professed "atheists" continues to grow. Yet many still feel an intense spiritual longing for a connection to what Aristotle called the "eternal and divine." For those who do, but demand a God that is compatible with their modern ideals, a new theology is required. This is what Anthony Kronman offers here, in a book that leads its readers away from the inscrutable Creator of the Abrahamic religions toward a God whose inexhaustible and everlasting presence is that of the world itself. Kronman defends an ancient conception of God, deepened and transformed by Christian belief--the born-again paganism on which modern science, art, and politics all vitally depend. Brilliantly surveying centuries of Western thought--from Plato to Augustine, Aquinas, and Kant, from Spinoza to Nietzsche, Darwin, and Freud--Kronman recovers and reclaims the God we need today. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, like new. A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second Discourses - together with Rousseau's extensive Replies to critics of these Discourses; the Essay on the Origin of Languages; the Letter to Voltaire on Providence; as well as several minor but illuminating writings - the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book. In these as well as in his later writings, Rousseau probes the very premises of modern thought. His influence was wide-reaching from the very first, and it has continued to grow since his death. The American and the French Revolutions were profoundly affected by his thought, as were Romanticism and Idealism. 437 pages.
Softcover. Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 498 pages, FRENCH TEXT. Cover and spine tanning, tape enforced at spine top and bottom. small name on title page. Interior clean and bright.
Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 218 pages. The Timaeus-Critias is concerned with cosmology and Plato's claim that its central task is to articulate the way in which the cosmos manifests the values of goodness and beauty. This book examines this important dialogue in its entirety using current methods of Platonic scholarship. Arguing that Aristotle's physics is far closer to the Timaeus than usually realized, the study's other prominent findings reinforce the dialogue's essentially moral message, and clarify its literary character.
Paris, Honore Champion, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale blue boards stamped in black and blue, 1086 pages. Translated to French by Pierre Coste, edited by Georges Moyal. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover set, complete in two volumes, both with bright dust jackets. Locke on Money presents for the first time the entire body of the philosopher's writings on this important subject (other than Two Treatises of Government). Accurate texts, together with an apparatus listing variant readings and significant manuscript changes, record the evolution of Locke's ideas from the original 1668-74 paper on interest to the three pamphlets on interest and coinage published in the 1690s. The introduction by Patrick Hyde Kelly establishes the wider context of Locke's writings in terms of contemporary debates on these subjects, the economic conditions of the time, and the circumstances of writing and publication. It shows, notably, that Locke's supposed responsibility for the 1696 recoinage is a myth. The account of what Locke derived from Mercantilist writings and of how he reformulated these in accordance with his philosophy illuminates his contribution to the evolution of economics, and will aid reappraisal of Two Treatises. The picture that emerges confirms Locke's status as major economic thinker, contrary to the prevalent view of recent decades. There are two volumes in the edition. The first contains the introductory matter, and the texts of the Early Writings on Interest, 1688-74, and Some Considerations. The second comprises Short Observations, Further Considerations, and the Appendices, Bibliography, and Index. 664 total pages. Name on front fly leaf in Vol. 1, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 500 pages. "The Ecclesiastical History of New England from the First Planting in the Year 1620, unto the Year of Our Lord 1698." With reproductions of the title-pages from the 1702 edition. Edited by Kenneth B. Murdock, with the assistance of Elizabeth W. Miller. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garland Publishing, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a collection of three facsimile reprints made from copies in Yale's Beinecke Library: 178, 85, 115 pages. Terra-cotta cloth, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. One in a series of volumes on British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th and 18th Centuries edited by Rene Wellek.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 249 pages. A study of "Aristotle's psychology, or philosophy of mind." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 426 pages. Behemoth, or The Long Parliament is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. Behemoth, completed around 1668 and not published until after Hobbe's death, represents the systematic application of this framework to the English Civil War. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards, 514 pages. Following a long-term international collaboration between leaders in cosmology and the philosophy of science, this volume addresses foundational questions at the limit of science across these disciplines, questions raised by observational and theoretical progress in modern cosmology. Space missions have mapped the Universe up to its early instants, opening up questions on what came before the Big Bang, the nature of space and time, and the quantum origin of the Universe. As the foundational volume of an emerging academic discipline, experts from relevant fields lay out the fundamental problems of contemporary cosmology and explore the routes toward finding possible solutions. Written for graduates and researchers in physics and philosophy, particular efforts are made to inform academics from other fields, as well as the educated public, who wish to understand our modern vision of the Universe, related philosophical questions, and the significant impacts on scientific methodology. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 475 pages, What is reduction? Must all discussions of the mind, value, color, biological organisms, and persons aim to reduce these to objects and properties that can be studied by more basic, physical science? Conversely, does failure to achieve a reduction undermine the legitimacy of higher levels of description or explanation? Though reduction has long been a favorite method of analysis in all areas of philosophy, in recent years philosophers have attempted to avoid these traditional alternatives by developing an account of higher-level phenomena which shows them to be grounded in, but not reducible to, basic physical objects and properties. The contributors to this volume examine the motivations for such anti-reductionist views, and assess their coherence and success, in a number of different fields, including moral and mental philosophy, psychology, organic biology, and the social sciences. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 314 pages. Presents a close discussion of each of the several topics arising in the chapter on the Paralogisms in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: the mind's immateriality, simplicity, substantiality, relation to embodiment and the external world, identity, immortality, freedom, and ideality.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages. SIGNED BY WILLIAMS on title page. The philosopher Bernard Williams explores what it means to be truthful with his characteristic combination of passion and elegant simplicity. Bookstore stickers on dj, previous owner's name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Edinburgh, T and T Clark, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 342 pages. Jewish-Christian contact and controversy were central to early Christian experience. An understanding of this contact and controversy and its continuation over the centuries is also central to any true understanding of the history of Christianity and of the history of Judaism. The twelve chapters of this book deal especially with the interconnected subjects of polemic and biblical interpretation. Nine are concerned with the ancient world, beginning with post-exilic Jewish writing and the New Testament and going on to later pagan, Jewish and Christian controversies. Three concentrate on medieval and early modern Jewish controversies. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, T&T Clark, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages, INSCRIBED BU AUTHOR on the half-title page. Analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they may best be explored and understood. Its aim is to place Edwards's writings on natural philosophy in the broad historical, theological and scientific context of a wide variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period - John Donne's reaction to the new astronomical philosophy of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, as well as to Francis Bacon's new natural philosophy; Blaise Pascal's response to Descartes' mechanical philosophy; the reactions to Newtonian science and finally Jonathan Edwards's response to the scientific culture and imagination of his time. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages. Lucretius' didactic masterpiece De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity's fear of death and its enslavement by false beliefs about the gods, and a detailed exposition of Epicurean atomist physics. For centuries, it has raised the question of whether it is primarily a poem or primarily a philosophical treatise, which also presents scientific doctrine. The current volume seeks to unite the three disciplinary aspects -- poetry, philosophy, and science -- in order to offer a holistic response to an important monument in cultural history. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers, but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds. Philosophers and scholars of ancient science look closely at the artistic placement of individual words, while literary critics explore ethical matters and the contribution of Lucretius' poetry to the argument of the poem. Topics covered include death and grief, evolution and the cosmos, ethics and politics, perception, and epistemology.Name and date on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to about 25 pages.
Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, This is the first volume in the four-volume edition of The Works of Lucy Hutchinson, the first-ever collected edition of the writings of the pioneering author and translator. Hutchinson (1620-81) had a remarkable range of her interests, from Latin poetry to Civil War politics and theology. In two parts, two volumes: 797 total pages. This edition of her translation of Lucretius's De rerum natura offers new biographical material, demonstrating the changes and unexpected continuities in Hutchinson's life between the work's composition in the 1650s and its dedication in 1675. Hers is the first complete surviving English translation of one of the great classical epics, a challenging text at the borderlines of poetry and philosophy. For the first time, the Lucretius translation is made available alongside the Latin text Hutchinson used, which differs in innumerable ways from versions known today. The commentary, the fullest in any edition of a literary translation, provides multiple ways into further understanding of the translation and its contexts. Written at a momentous period in political and literary history, Hutchinson's Lucretius throws light on the complex transition between 'ancient' and 'modern' conceptions of the classical canon and of natural philosophy. It offers a case study in the history of reading, and more specifically of reading by a woman. Name on front fly leaves, pencil notations to front fly leaf, a dozen pages in Part 1. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. Robert Kraynak offers a radical reinterpretation of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes and a new assessment of Hobbes's contribution to the origins and problems of modernity. The author argues that it is necessary to examine a neglected facet of Hobbes's though his writings on history, especially Behemoth, his lengthy study of the English Civil War. Through a close reading of these works, Kraynak shows how Hobbes came to consider the possibility of a new kind of political science, one that is supremely confident of the power of critical reason to overcome the authorities of the past to build a new form of civilization yet uncertain about reason's foundations. In the first part of the book, Kraynak analyzes Hobbes's historical works and shows that they contain a coherent theory of the history of civilization whose central theme is the development of the human mind. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with light fading to spine, 342 pages. The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spiritual revival and return of the golden age. His Platonic evangelizing was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology, translated into English for the first time in this edition, is one of the keys to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.
Hardcover. London/NY, Basil Blackwell, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine, 251 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, spine with maroon title block and gilt lettering, 448 pages. Vol. 4 ONLY of a six volume set. Clean, bright copy, no markings.
Softcover. UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 291 pages. It is widely supposed that Hume (1711-1776) invented and espoused the `regularity' theory of causation, holding that causal relations are nothing but a matter of one type of thing being regularly followed by another. It is also widely supposed that he was quite right about this, and that it was one of his greatest contributions to philosophy. Galen Strawson argues in this book that the regularity theory of causation is indefensible, and that Hume never adopted it in any case. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. DeKalb IL, Northern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 554 pages. Text in Italian, English and French. Clean, like-new copy.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 121 pages. This is the first new translation for forty years of a fascinating work of political theory, until now only available in academic libraries. Dante's Monarchy addresses the fundamental question of what form of political organization best suits human nature; it embodies a political vision of startling originality and power, and illuminates the intellectual interests and achievements of one of the world's great poets. Prue Shaw's translation is accompanied by a full introduction and notes, which provide a complete guide to the text, and places Monarchy in the context of Dante's life and work. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and front cover, 64 pages. English experience, no. 354. A facsimile reprint made from a copy in the library of King's College Cambridge. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 4th pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket that has a faded spine. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. With the publication of The Illusion of Conscious Will in 2002, Daniel Wegner proposed an innovative and provocative answer: the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain; it helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion ("the most compelling illusion"), it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 535 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1820 Edition. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, North Pole Gold Temple & Temple of Transcendental Wisdom, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 213 pages. Color photos in rear. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Softcover. Amherst MA, University Of Massachusetts , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages. This study challenges the common view that Nietzsche passed through several discrete periods of thought, each based on a different set of values, and that his work can best be understood as a collection of isolated insights. Through close textual analysis, Robert John Ackermann exposes the underlying unity and consistency in Nietzsche's thought that has long been overlooked. Ackermann is to be highly commended for this clearly written introduction to Nietzsche. Light pencil underlining to several pages.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 482 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 387 pages. Black cloth covers slightly bowed. Some light notes in pencil. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear.
Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Joseph Steen & Co, reprint, 1851, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, All leather bound, with illustrations, a critical introduction, sermons and essay, and historical index. Gilt border on covers and title on spine with all edges marbled. Bound upside down, cover worn with wear and rub, two rough worn down patches on cover, otherwise, internally clean and tight.
Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 126 pages. Hardcover. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, vibrant, and glossy. All in like-new condition, excellent. One of the most remarkable discussions on fate, providence and free choice in Late Antiquity. It continues a long debate that had started with the first polemics of the Platonists against the Stoic doctrine of determinism. This first English translation will bring the arguments Proclus formulates again to the fore.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1715 pages. Hardcover. color illustrations throughout, illustrated by Salvador Dali. Pages unmarked (including back pages intedend for recording of family information). 2 red ribbon book marks attached at spine. No slipcase. Marbled decorated endpapers. leather cover boards, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover board. Gilt edges (slightly faded). Binding beautiful. Spine straight. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, William Lewer, 1st, 1838, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards, black calf spine labels with gilt lettering, 396 pages, American Edition noted on title page; its London parent, "The Metropolitan: A monthly journal of literature, science, and the fine arts" was a London monthly journal established by Thomas Campbell in 1831 and continued, under various editors, until 1850. Clean bright copy.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, The University of North Carolina Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 336 pages. Author offers in-depth look at American made forms of Christianity from Church of Christ to Mormon to Pentecostal. Excellent reference material. Clean copy
Softcover. Washington DC, The Catholic University of America Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 178 pages, original printed wraps. VG, light wear to edges of covers. INSCRIBED BY 0'MALLEY on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with black lettering on spine. 174 pages including index. "In a study that is both an explanation and a defense of Spinozism, Mr. Curley not only clarifies abstruse elements of the Spinozistic system, but also offers intriguing interpretations of the contemporary views he employhs to explain Spinoza's intentions." Clean copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 419 pages. By the mid-1600s, the commonsense, manifest picture of the world associated with Aristotle had been undermined by skeptical arguments on the one hand and by the rise of the New Science on the other. What would be the scientific image to succeed the Aristotelian model? Thomas Lennon argues here that the contest between the supporters of Descartes and the supporters of Gassendi to decide this issue was the most important philosophical debate of the latter half of the seventeenth century. Descartes and Gassendi inspired their followers with radically opposed perspectives on space, the objects in it, and how these objects are known. Lennon maintains that differing concepts on these matters implied significant moral and political differences: the Descartes/Gassendi conflict was typical of Plato's perennial battle of the gods (friends of forms) and giants (materialists), and the crux of that enduring philosophical struggle is the exercise of moral and political authority. Lennon demonstrates, in addition, that John Locke should be read as having taken up Gassendi's cause against Descartes. In Lennon's reinterpretation of the history of philosophy between the death dates of Gassendi and Malebranche, Locke's acknowledged opposition to Descartes on some issues is applied to the most important questions of Locke exegesis.
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