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. NY, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 477 pages, two b&w plates. A reprint of the 1913 revised Second Edition. A selection from his correspondence with Boccaccio and other friends, designed to illustrate the beginnings of the Renaissance. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean
Softcover. Amsterdam, North - Holland Publishing, 2nd pr., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Thin card covers in a lightly sunned dust jacket, 122 pages. Remarkable work in which the author aimed to collect some of the data available in the state of science of Bochenski's times and to arrange them in a kind of outline, which showed forth some of our indebtedness to Greek Logicians, and allowed the reader to see how their results were reached.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 896 pages. This masterly study has a grand sweep. It ranges over centuries, with a long look backward over several millennia. Yet the history it unfolds is primarily the story of individuals: thinkers and dreamers who envisaged an ideal social order and described it persuasively, leaving a mark on their own and later times. The roster of utopians includes men of all stripes in different countries and eras--figures as disparate as More and Fourier, the Marquis de Sade and Edward Bellamy, Rousseau and Marx. Fascinating character studies of the major figures are among the delights of the book. 1980 National Book Award winner. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. UK, Oxford At The Clarendon Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth covers in a lightly worn dust jacket, 366 pages. Text in Greek and English. Vol. 1 ONLY. Name on front fly leaf and dust jacket otherwise clean.
Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 386 pages. Rivers examines the rise of Anglican moral religion during the period 1660-1780, and the reactions against it. Series Editor(s): Erskine-Hill, Howard; Richetti, John. Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature & Thought. Volume 1 ONLY. Name, date on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. NY, Garland Publishing, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth with black lettering on spine, 195+ 276 pages. Facsimile of the original 1682 edition. From the 'British Philosophers and Theologians of the 17th and 18th Century' series, edited by Rene Wellek. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st pbk, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 755 pages. Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings-mosaics incorporating philosophy, literary criticism, Marxist analysis, and a syncretistic theology-defy simple categorization. And his mobile, often improvised existence has proven irresistible to mythologizers. His writing career moved from the brilliant esotericism of his early writings through his emergence as a central voice in Weimar culture and on to the exile years, with its pioneering studies of modern media and the rise of urban commodity capitalism in Paris. That career was played out amid some of the most catastrophic decades of modern European history: the horror of the First World War, the turbulence of the Weimar Republic, and the lengthening shadow of fascism. Now, a major new biography from two of the world's foremost Benjamin scholars reaches beyond the mosaic and the mythical to present this intriguing figure in full. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 338 pages. VOLUME 1 ONLY. A facsimile reprint of the 1698 and 1900 editions. Pencil notations to about 40 pages in the treatise dealing with Enthusiasm.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Corpus Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, Light blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering to spine. 390 pages. Maurice Blondel was a phenomenologist long before the term was used to describe an identifiable movement. His monumental work, L'Action (1893). set the stage for an intellectual revolution that is still in progress. It remains a classic effort to demonstrate the integral unity of science, metaphysics, and the moral life in the light of man's religious aspirations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 2nd Ed., 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Ex-library copy with light stamping, label on spine. 182 pages. Except for library stamping text pages are clean, firm binding. Originally published in 1906, this with a new preface by author.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 931 pages. Greek glossary, English glossary, bibliography of Principal editions of secondary sources. Octavo. Glossy burgunday soft covers with gold and white titles. Covers have minimal shelf wear, a small bump at top left front, interior clean and fresh, a few pages have very slight sign of storage bend at the top corner, otherwise very good. Heavy for international shipping. The Enneads is a work central to the history of philosophy in late antiquity. This volume is the first complete edition in English for 75 years and also includes Porphyry's Life of Plotinus. Led by Gerson, a team of experts present up to date translations which are based on the best available text, the editio minor of Henry and Schwyzer and its corrections.... They also offer extensive annotation to assist the reader, together with cross-references and citations. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, Edwin Hunt, 1st, 1847, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 213 pages. 7.75 x 4.75", blind & gold stamped brown cloth. A collection of sermons: Elements of Power: spirit of enterprise, enthusiasm, courage, readiness to receive & propagate new truths; Sources of Danger: trifling pursuits, unworthy associates, improper pleasures & amusements, ball-room, intemperance, theatre, improper reading; Pleasure & the Judgment; Demands of Age: reforms, slavery, war, temperance; spurious reforms, capital punishment. Some light foxing, minor wear to covers, clean.
Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 564 pages. This volume offers an outline of developments in the intellectual debate on religious liberty, religious toleration and religious concord in the eighteenth-century Netherlands. Emphasizing changes in the relations between religious belief and the public sphere, it seeks to add new perspectives to recent analyses of toleration. Each chapter of this book discusses a different aspect of the eighteenth-century Dutch toleration debate. On the basis of a large number of sources, and paying particular attention to minor writers, a broad variety of topics is treated, ranging from the official Reformed confessions and legal scholarship to unionism, apologetics, sociability, and the press. This study extends contemporary analyses of early modern thought on toleration to the end of the eighteenth century. Name on front fly leaf, pencil notations to front endpapers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Albany, New York, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 451 pages, with Japanese text in back. Slight wear/rubbing to edges and spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf and handwritten note by author laid-in. Crisp, clean pages and tight binding.
Hardcover. London, John Bennett, reprint, 1832, Book: Very Good, 366 pages photocopied from the 1832 Seventh Edition, xeroxed two leafs per page with the reverse side blank. Bound in oblong black cloth covers. Volume 1 only (of 2).
Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 619 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and info on front flyleaf. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some shelf wear, fading, fraying to bottom of spine, Spine slightly cocked. Gutter split at half title page. Deckled edges with offset pages. pages and edges have some tanning from age, doesn't affect text. Light pencil (erasable) notes throughout.
Softcover. Chico CA, Scholars Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 374 pages. A collection of essays first published in 1869. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with glossy boards, 204 pages. Why should there be anything at all? Why, in particular, should a material world exist? Bede Rundle advances clear, non-technical answers to these perplexing questions. If, as the theist maintains, God is a being who cannot but exist, his existence explains why there is something rather than nothing. However, this can also be explained on the basis of a weaker claim. Not that there is some particular being that has to be, but simply that there has to be something or other. Rundle proffers arguments for thinking that that is indeed how the question is to be put to rest. Traditionally, the existence of the physical universe is held to depend on God, but the theist faces a major difficulty in making clear how a being outside space and time, as God is customarily conceived to be, could stand in an intelligible relation to the world, whether as its creator or as the author of events within it. Rundle argues that a creator of physical reality is not required, since there is no alternative to its existence. There has to be something, and a physical universe is the only real possibility. He supports this claim by eliminating rival contenders; he dismisses the supernatural, and argues that, while other forms of being, notably the abstract and the mental, are not reducible to the physical, they presuppose its existence. Name, date on front fly leaf. Light pencil marking to about 20 pages.
Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 420 pages. John Locke's treatises on government make frequent reference to the Hebrew Bible, while references to the New Testament are almost completely absent. To date, scholarship has not addressed this surprising characteristic of the treatises. In this book, Yechiel Leiter offers a Hebraic reading of Locke's fundamental political text. In doing so, he formulates a new school of thought in Lockean political interpretation and challenges existing ones. He shows how a grasp of the Hebraic underpinnings of Locke's political theory resolves many of the problems, as well as scholarly debates, that are inherent in reading Locke. More than a book about the political theory of John Locke, this volume is about the foundational ideas of western civilization. While focused on Locke's Hebraism, it demonstrates the persistent relevance of the biblical political narrative to modernity. Light pencil marking to about 25 pages. Otherwise clean and tight. No dust jacket.
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.
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. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 409 pages with index. The philosopher and historian of culture Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) has had a significant and continuing influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. explanation. This title presents some of his most important works. Light pecil marking to about 12 pages, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 175 pages. Despite recent advances in Locke scholarship, philosophers and political theorists have paid little attention to the relations among his three greatest works: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Two Treatises of Government, and Epistola de Tolerantia. As a result our picture of Locke's thought is a curiously fragmented one. Toleration and Understanding in Locke argues that these works are unified by a concern to promote the cause of religious toleration. Making extensive use of Locke's neglected replies to Proast, Nicholas Jolley shows how Locke draws on his epistemological principles to criticize religious persecution - for Locke, since revelation is an object of belief, not knowledge, coercion by the state in religious matters is not morally justified. In this volume Jolley also seeks to show how the Two Treatises of Government and the letters for toleration adopt the same contractualist approach to political theory; Locke argues for toleration from the function of the state where this is determined by the decisions of rational contracting parties. Throughout, attention is paid to demonstrating the range of Locke's arguments for toleration and to defending them, where possible, against recent criticisms. The book includes an account of the development of Locke's views about religious toleration from the beginning to the end of his career; it also includes discussions of his individualism about knowledge and belief, his critique of religious enthusiasm, his commitment to the minimal creed, and his teachings about natural law. Locke emerges as a rather systematic thinker whose arguments are highly relevant to modern debates about religious toleration. Light pencil marking to some pages.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, 132 pages. Name on front fly leaf, pencil markings to about 20 pages. Light edgewear to covers, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black. 164 pages. The Career of Toleration considers the Locke-Proast controversy from the standpoint of political theory, examining Locke's and Proast's texts and tracing their relationship to later discussions of toleration. Vernon reconstructs the grounds of the dispute, drawing attention to the long-term importance of the arguments and evaluating their relative strength. He then examines issues of toleration in later contexts, specifically James Fitzjames Stephen's critique of John Stuart Mill, the perfectionist alternative to contractualist liberalism, and the view that the traditional attachment to toleration must, by the force of its own arguments, move from liberalism to a defence of a much stronger form of democracy. Arguing that Locke's and Proast's exchange marks a turning point in the intellectual history that has helped to structure the terms of modern political debate, Vernon presents a solid case for thinking that the exchange between Locke and Proast is as important for the twentieth century as it was for the seventeenth. Bright, clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st pbk., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 649 pages. Collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide and deep thinker on a diverse range of issues. The chapters included in this Oxford Handbook cover the full range of Hobbes's thought--his philosophy of logic and language; his view of physics and scientific method; his ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law; and his views of religion, history, and literature. Several of the chapters overlap in fruitful ways, so that the reader can see the richness and depth of Hobbes thought from a variety of perspectives. The contributors are experts on Hobbes from many countries, whose home disciplines include philosophy, political science, history, and literature.
Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 194 pages. Based upon the 1961 Arensberg Lectures, given at Stanford University, this collection of essays offers a genuinely unified interpretation of Italian Renaissance thought by describing and evaluating the philosophies of eight pivotal figures: 1). Francesco Petrarch. 2). Lorenzo Valla. 3). Marsilio Ficino. 4). Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. 5). Pietro Pomponazzi. 6). Bernardino Telesio. 7). Francesco Patrizi. 8). Giordano Bruno. With appendix: The medieval antecedents of Renaisssance Humanism, notes, bibliographical survey and index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 493 pages. Truth is one of the most debated topics in philosophy; Wolfgang K?nne presents a comprehensive critical examination of all major theories, from Aristotle to the present day. He argues that it is possible to give a satisfactory 'modest' account of truth without invoking problematic notions like correspondence, fact, or meaning. The clarity of exposition and the wealth of examples will make Conceptions of Truth an invaluable and stimulating guide for advanced students and scholars. Kunne expounds and engages with the ideas of many thinkers, from Aristotle and the Stoics, to Continental analytic philosophers like Bolzano, Brentanoand Kotarbinski, to such leading figures in current debates as Dummett, Putnam, Wright, and Horwich. He explains many important distinctions (between varieties of correspondence, for example, between different conceptions of making true, between various kinds of eternalism and temporalism) which have so far beenneglected in the literature. Kunne argues that it is possible to give a satisfactory 'modest' account of truth without invoking problematic notions like correspondence, fact, or meaning. And he offers a novel argument to support the realist claim that truth outruns justifiability. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, Revised Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 592 pages, b&w illustrations. Lady Anne Conway was a remarkable woman who became a philosopher in her own right at a time when most women were denied even basic education. The Conway Letters is the record of her friendship with the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More, which began when he acted as her unofficial tutor in philosophy and lasted until her death. The letters cover a wide range of topics - personal, philosophical, religious, and social. They give a detailed picture of the More-Conway circle, including such figures as Jeremy Taylor, Ralph Cudworth, Robert Boyle, and Francis Mercury van Helmont, as well as Lady Conway's Quaker associates, George Keith and William Penn. The letters are thus a valuable source for mid-seventeenth-century history, and especially for the intellectual history of the period. Revised from the 1930 printing with new material and introduction by Sarah Hutton. Name on front fly leaf, small chip/tear to top spine of the dust jacket.
Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 195 plus 276 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1682 edition. One of 9 volumes in More's collected works. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1074 pages. James was a vegetarian, wore only linen clothing, bathed daily at dawn in cold water, and was a life-long Nazirite. In this profound and provocative work of scholarly detection, eminent biblical scholar Robert Eisenman introduces a startling theory about the identity of James--the brother of Jesus, who was almost entirely marginalized in the New Testament.Drawing on long-overlooked early Church texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Eisenman reveals in this groundbreaking exploration that James, not Peter, was the real successor to the movement we now call "Christianity." In an argument with enormous implications, Eisenman identifies Paul as deeply compromised by Roman contacts. James is presented as not simply the leader of Christianity of his day, but the popular Jewish leader of his time, whose death triggered the Uprising against Rome--a fact that creative rewriting of early Church documents has obscured. Clean copy.
Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Sotcover, 552 pages. From the complete three-volume critical edition of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, this edition extracts the full text and footnotes of the 1827 lectures, making the work available in a convenient form for study. Of the lectures that can be fully reconstructed, those of 1827 are the clearest, the maturest in form, and the most accessible to nonspecialists. In them, readers will find Hegel engaged in lively debates and in important refinements of his treatment of the concept of religion, the Oriental religions and Judaism, Christology, the Trinity, the God-world relationship, and many other topics. Name onfront fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press , 2nd Ed., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 341 pages. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil notations to several pages.
Softcover. Boston, Brill Academic, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 562 pages. This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the beginning of humanism in poetry and its gradual penetration of other Latin literary genres, and, through stylistic analyses of texts, the extent to which imitation of the ancients produced changes in cognition and visual perception. The volume traces the link between vernacular translations and the emergence of Florence as the leader of Latin humanism by 1400 and why, limited to an elite in the fourteenth century, humanism became a major educational movement in the first decades of the fifteenth. It revises our conception of the relationship of Italian humanism to French twelfth-century humanism and of the character of early Italian humanism itself. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor edge wear, 396 pages. Volume V ONLY. This is the fifth volume in a six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who has had a significant, and continuing, influence on twentieth-century Continental philosophy and in a broad range of scholarly disciplines. In addition to his landmark works on the theories of history and the human sciences, Dilthey made important contributions to hermeneutics and phenomenology, aesthetics, psychology, and the methodology of the social sciences. This volume presents Dilthey's principal writings on aesthetics and the philosophical understanding of poetry, as well as representative essays of literary criticism. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to about 25 pages in middle of the book.
Hardcover. Dallas, The Pegasus Foundation/The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 213 pages. Translated from the French by Edith Farrell. Gaston Bachelard is acclaimed as one of the most significant modern French thinkers. From 1929 to 1962 he authored twenty-three books addressing his dual concerns, the philosophy of science and the analysis of the imagination of matter. The influence of his thought can be felt in all disciplines of the humanities - art, architecture, literature, language, poetics, philosophy, and depth psychology. His teaching career included posts at the College de Bar-sur-Aube, the University of Dijon, and from 1940 to 1962 the chair of history and philosophy of science at the Sorbonne.
Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages. This unique collection of essays, published together for the first time, not only elucidates the complexity of ancient Greek thought, but also reveals Karl Popper's engagement with Presocratic philosophy and the enlightenment he experienced in his reading of Parmenides. As Karl Popper himself states himself in his introduction, he was inspired to write about Presocratic philosophy for two reasons - firstly to illustrate the thesis that all history is the history of problem situations and secondly, to show the greatness of the early Greek philosophers, who gave Europe its philosophy, its science and its humanism. Light pencil marking to 8 pages.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Maurice Wiles was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1970-1991. To celebrate his seventieth birthday, a group of distinguished friends and colleagues have written this important series of original and perceptive essays on the twin themes of making and remaking Christian doctrine. The topics covered in this thought-provoking collection range from the notion of divine action in Hebrew Wisdom literature to reflections on the nature of the ministry, from the concept of God and the doctrines of Christology and of the Trinity to the character of theological reflection, and from revelation and tradition to the "lex orandi," the nature of interpretation in religion and the historical basis of theological understanding. Clean copy.
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.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 346 pages. This book examines some of the deepest questions in philosophy: What is involved in judging a belief, action, or feeling to be rational? What place does morality have in the kind of life it makes most sense to lead? How are to understand claims to objectivity in moral judgments and in judgments of rationality? When we find ourselves in fundamental disagreement with whole communities, how can we understand out disagreement and cope with it? To shed light on such issues, Alan Gibbard develops what he calls a "norm-expressionistic analysis" of rationality. He refines this analysis by drawing on evolutionary theory and experimental psychology, as well as on more traditional moral and political philosophy. What emerges is an interpretation of human normative life, with its quandaries and disputes over what is rational and irrational, morally right and morally wrong. Judgments of what it makes sense to do, to think, and to feel, Gibbard agrues, are central to shaping the way we live our lives. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 196 pages. Translated with an Introduction and Philosophical Commentary by M. J. Charlesworth. This is the work in which Anselm (a medieval church father) presents his ontological argument for the existence of God. It's one of the most debated philosophical arguments for the existence of God in history. Clean copy.
Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Introduction by David R. Anderson before a facsimile reprint of the 1728 printing. 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. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd Edition, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 544 pages. Hardcover. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Previous owner's ID stamp on endpapers. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on black on spine, some agewear to cover boards. Binding very good. Spine straight. Some pages have some light notes/underlining. This anthology brought together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY6
Hardcover. New York, The Century Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 341 pages, gilt title on spine, blue cloth cover. Very slight edge and corner wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
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