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Posidonius: Volume I: The Fragments by: Posidonius; edited by L. Edelstein & I. G. Kidd
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Posidonius: Volume I: The Fragments
by: Posidonius; edited by L. Edelstein & I. G. Kidd

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, orange wrappers, 341 pages. Classic scholarly text contains a collection of the surviving attested fragments of Posidonius, the leading stoic philosopher of his time in the first half of the first century, B.C. This exhaustive work was begun by Prof. Edelstein, a preeminent authority on Posidonius, and subsequently completed and edited after his death by Ian Kidd. There are some sixty different ancient reporters represented in this volume. First published in 1972, this re-issue contains 60 new readings, nearly eighty alterations to the apparatus criticus and corrections of errors. GREEK AND LATIN TEXT. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise, clean.

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The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility by: Waller, Bruce N.
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The Stubborn System of Moral Responsibility
by: Waller, Bruce N.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 294 pages. An examination of the powerful social and psychological factors that hold the belief in moral responsibility firmly in place. The philosophical commitment to moral responsibility seems unshakable. But, argues Bruce Waller, the philosophical belief in moral responsibility is much stronger than the philosophical arguments in favor of it. Philosophers have tried to make sense of moral responsibility for centuries, with mixed results. Most contemporary philosophers insist that even conclusive proof of determinism would not and should not result in doubts about moral responsibility. Many embrace compatibilist views, and propose an amazing variety of competing compatibilist arguments for saving moral responsibility. In this provocative book, Waller examines the stubborn philosophical belief in moral responsibility, surveying the philosophical arguments for it but focusing on the system that supports these arguments: powerful social and psychological factors that hold the belief in moral responsibility firmly in place. Clean copy.

Record # 386875

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Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology by: Charles H. Kahn
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Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology
by: Charles H. Kahn

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1960, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering to spine, 249 pages, two b&w plates. Through criticism and analysis of ancient traditions, Kahn reconstructs the pattern of Anaximander's thought using historical methods akin to the reconstructive techniques of comparative linguists. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to a dozen pages. Cloth spine faded.

Record # 386876

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Il Beneficio di Cristo con le Versioni del Secolo XVI, Documenti e Testimonianze (Corpus Reformatorum Italicorum) by: Benedetto da Mantova
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Il Beneficio di Cristo con le Versioni del Secolo XVI, Documenti e Testimonianze (Corpus Reformatorum Italicorum)
by: Benedetto da Mantova

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.

Record # 386880

Price: $45.00
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The Atom in the History of Human Thought by: Pullman, Bernard
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The Atom in the History of Human Thought
by: Pullman, Bernard

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine, 403 pages. The concept of the atom is very near scientific bedrock, touching first causes, fundamental principles, our conception of the nature of reality. This book is a translation from the French of a history of atomic thought and theory, from ancient Greece to the present day. Pullman grounds his coverage of scientific theory always in the religious and philosophical context of the times, covering the whole period of Western civilization, including in passing the major scientific philosophies of the Muslim world and India. The transition of atomism from a philosophical position to an experimental science, in the mid-19th century, is well handled, and the coverage is nicely rounded out by a treatment of the first visual proof of atoms' material existence by direct microscopic imaging of individual atoms about 10 years ago. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 386881

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Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul by: Finamore, John F.
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Iamblichus and the Theory of the Vehicle of the Soul
by: Finamore, John F.

Softcover. Chico CA, Scholars Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 173 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 386899

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Essays on Truth and Reality by: F. H. Bradley
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Essays on Truth and Reality
by: F. H. Bradley

Hardcover. Oxford University Press, reprint, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 480 pages. Reprint of the 1914 first edition. Later essays by this important British philosopher, mostly published in Mind in the 1900s & 1910s. Bradley is best-known for his influential book Appearance & Reality; in a brief concluding remark he notes the essays appearing here are all linked by his idea of Reality, which, he says, his opponents have failed to understand.

Record # 386906

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The Philosophy of Plotinus: Volume I by: William Ralph Inge
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The Philosophy of Plotinus: Volume I
by: William Ralph Inge

Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 3rd Ed., 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 270 pages. Spine faded, foxing/spotting to edge of text block. Volume 1 only. Name on front fly leaf. Clean internally.

Record # 386907

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Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence by: Felix Gilbert
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Machiavelli and Guicciardini: Politics and History in Sixteenth Century Florence
by: Felix Gilbert

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton , reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 339 pages. In Felix Gilbert's skilled analysis, the figures of Niccolo Machiavelli, whose writing changed the way people think about politics, and Francesco Guicciardini, whose History of Italy is one of the first classics of modern historical writing, provide important clues to interpreting the Renaissance. "Instead of treating these two great figures in isolation, Professor Gilbert puts them into the context of their times, into the stream of political thinking and historical writing of which they were a part. . . .His book is the fruit of years of writing of which they were a part. . . .His book is the fruit of years of original research among Florentine archives and of careful thought about the problems of Renaissance politics and historiography." Clean, bight copy.

Record # 386921

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Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 1, Whichcote to Wesley: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660??"1780 by: Isabel Rivers
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Reason, Grace, and Sentiment: Volume 1, Whichcote to Wesley: A Study of the Language of Religion and Ethics in England 1660??"1780
by: Isabel Rivers

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 277 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.

Record # 386922

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Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes by: Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Descartes, Ren?©, Translator: Shapiro, Lisa
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Correspondence Between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes
by: Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Descartes, Ren?©, Translator: Shapiro, Lisa

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2nd pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 246 pages. Between the years 1643 and 1649, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-80) and Rene Descartes (1596-1650) exchanged fifty-eight letters--thirty-two from Descartes and twenty-six from Elisabeth. Their correspondence contains the only known extant philosophical writings by Elisabeth, revealing her mastery of metaphysics, analytic geometry, and moral philosophy, as well as her keen interest in natural philosophy. The letters are essential reading for anyone interested in Descartes's philosophy, in particular his account of the human being as a union of mind and body, as well as his ethics. They also provide a unique insight into the character of their authors and the way ideas develop through intellectual collaboration.

Record # 386924

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A Dialogue Between A Tutor and His Pupil by: Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury
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A Dialogue Between A Tutor and His Pupil
by: Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury

Hardcover. Stuttgart GR, Friedrich Frommann , reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with gilt lettering, 272 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1768 London edition. Light pencil marginalia to a dozen pages, otherwise clean.

Record # 386925

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F?©lix Ravaisson: Selected Essays by: Sinclair, Mark (Ed.)
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F?©lix Ravaisson: Selected Essays
by: Sinclair, Mark (Ed.)

Softcover. London/NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 346 pages. This volume makes the key essays of 19th century French philosopher Felix Ravaisson available in English for the first time. In recent years, Ravaisson has emerged as an extremely important and influential figure in the history of modern European philosophy. The volume contains the classic 1838 dissertation Of Habit, studies of Pascal, Stoicism and the wider history of philosophy together with the Philosophical Testament that he left unfinished when he died in 1900. The volume also features Ravaisson's work in archaeology, the history of religions and art-theory, and his essay on the Venus de Milo, which occupied him over a period of twenty years after he noticed, when hiding the statue behind a false wall in a dingy Parisian basement during the Franco-Prussian war, that it had previously been presented in a way that deformed its original bearing and meaning. Clean copy.

Record # 386933

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The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History by: Rosen, Michael
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The Shadow of God: Kant, Hegel, and the Passage from Heaven to History
by: Rosen, Michael

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages. A bold and beautifully written exploration of the "afterlife" of God, showing how apparently secular habits of mind in fact retain the structure of religious thought. Once in the West, our lives were bounded by religion. Then we were guided out of the darkness of faith, we are often told, by the cold light of science and reason. To be modern was to reject the religious for the secular and rational. In a bold retelling of philosophical history, Michael Rosen explains the limits of this story, showing that many modern and apparently secular ways of seeing the world were in fact profoundly shaped by religion. Clean copy.

Record # 386934

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Locke on Persons and Personal Identity by: Boeker, Ruth
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Locke on Persons and Personal Identity
by: Boeker, Ruth

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Ruth Boeker offers a new perspective on Locke's account of persons and personal identity by considering it within the context of his broader philosophical project and the philosophical debates of his day. Her interpretation emphasizes the importance of the moral and religious dimensions of his view. By taking seriously Locke's general approach to questions of identity, Boeker shows that we should consider his account of personhood separately from his account of personal identity over time. On this basis, she argues that Locke endorses a moral account of personhood, according to which persons are subjects of accountability, and that his particular thinking about moral accountability explains why he regards sameness of consciousness as necessary for personal identity over time. In contrast to some neo-Lockean views about personal identity, Boeker argues that Locke's account of personal identity is not psychological per se, but rather his underlying moral, religious, metaphysical, and epistemic background beliefs are relevant for understanding why he argues for a consciousness-based account of personal identity. Taking his underlying background beliefs into consideration not only sheds light on why many of his early critics do not adopt Locke's view, but also shows why his view cannot be as easily dismissed as some of his critics assume. Clean copy.

Record # 386935

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The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College November 1919. by: Alfred North Whitehead
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The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College November 1919.
by: Alfred North Whitehead

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge at the University Press, 2nd pr., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 202 pages. When The Concept of Nature by Alfred North Whitehead was first published in 1920 it was declared to be one of the most important works on the relation between philosophy and science for many years, and several generations later it continues to deserve careful attention. This is the second printing published six years later. Whitehead explores the fundamental problems of substance, space and time, and offers a criticism of Einstein's method of interpreting results while developing his own well-known theory of the four-dimensional 'space-time manifold'. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil notations to 15 pages.

Record # 386938

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The Wars of the Lord: Volume Two (Book Two-Dreams, Divination, and Prophecy; Book Three-Divine Knowledge; Book Four-Divine Providence) by: Gershom, Levi Ben/ Translat
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The Wars of the Lord: Volume Two (Book Two-Dreams, Divination, and Prophecy; Book Three-Divine Knowledge; Book Four-Divine Providence)
by: Gershom, Levi Ben/ Translat

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 278 pages. A major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), one of the most creative and daring minds of the medieval world. It is devoted to a demonstration that the Torah, properly understood, is identical to true philosophy. Volume 2 ONLY. Clean copy.

Record # 386949

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The Wars of the Lord: Volume One, Book One - Immortality of the Soul by: Gershom, Levi Ben/ Translator: Feldman, Seymour
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The Wars of the Lord: Volume One, Book One - Immortality of the Soul
by: Gershom, Levi Ben/ Translator: Feldman, Seymour

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Publication Society, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth, lacks dust jacket, 256 pages. A major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), one of the most creative and daring minds of the medieval world. It is devoted to a demonstration that the Torah, properly understood, is identical to true philosophy. Volume 1 ONLY. Clean copy.

Record # 386950

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The Poor Man''s Morning and Evening Portions: Being a Selection of a Verse of Scripture, With Short Observations for Every Day in the Year by: Robert Hawker
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The Poor Man''s Morning and Evening Portions: Being a Selection of a Verse of Scripture, With Short Observations for Every Day in the Year by: Robert HawkerThe Poor Man''s Morning and Evening Portions: Being a Selection of a Verse of Scripture, With Short Observations for Every Day in the Year by: Robert Hawker

The Poor Man''s Morning and Evening Portions: Being a Selection of a Verse of Scripture, With Short Observations for Every Day in the Year
by: Robert Hawker

Hardcover. London, Edmund Spettigue, 1841, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, half leather with marbled boards, 460 pages. Ornate gilt design on spine with 4 raised bands. Copy block with marbled edges. A contemporary note on a blank prelim page suggests this copy was a gift from Hawker's daughter. A classic that received its unique name because it was originally published in small penny portions so as to be affordable to the poor. Each morning and evening portion contains between 150 and 600 words; the size of a newspaper article or bulletin. The lessons and thought offered are to-the-point, teaching about a given Bible phrase, psalm, or proverb. Every nugget of spiritual wisdom is prefaced with a Biblical quotation that directly pertains to the author's explanations and instruction. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 387262

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The Mysticism Of Paul The Apostle by: Schweitzer, Albert
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The Mysticism Of Paul The Apostle
by: Schweitzer, Albert

Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles Black, 2nd Ed., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover on a worn, chipped dust jacket, 411 pages. First published in 1931, this is the Second Edition with corrections. Albert Schweitzer goes against Luther and the Protestant tradition to look at what Paul actually writes in the Epistles to the Romans and Galatians: an emphasis upon the personal experience of the believer with the divine. Clean copy.

Record # 387391

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Philosophy, Religion and Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries by: Yolton, John. W. / Editor
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Philosophy, Religion and Science in the 17th and 18th Centuries
by: Yolton, John. W. / Editor

Softcover. Rochester NY, University of Rochester Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 539 pages. The essays in this collection illustrate the interdisciplinary approach to the history of ideas fostered by the Journal of the History of Ideas. Science, philosophy and religion were closely connected in the 17th and 18th centuries, and common threads run through all the articles. A number of essays revolve around Locke: the implications of his doctrines for religion, and their relation to and support of the new science; several of these articles refer to Descartes, Leibniz andHume. There are essays on optics and vision in the work of Berkeley, Reid and Newton, and on the relation between biology and physiology, especially as these disciplines contribute to the science of man. The authors include HENRY GUERLAC, MARGARET C. JACOB, SHIRLEY ROE, L. LAUDAN, NICHOLAS JOLLEY, JAMES FORCE, G. A. J. ROGERS and CATHERINE WILSON. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387394

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The Philosophical Canon in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Essays in Honour of John W. Yolton by: Rogers, G. A. J.; Tomaselli, Sylvana (eds.)
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The Philosophical Canon in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Essays in Honour of John W. Yolton
by: Rogers, G. A. J.; Tomaselli, Sylvana (eds.)

Hardcover. Rochester NY, University of Rochester Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. 10 Essays, ranging from Locke, Berkeley, and Hume to Foucault's Critique of the Enlightenment, with an Introduction by Sylvana Tomaselli. Contributors include Richard H. Popkin, Peter Laslett, and Michael Ayers.

Record # 387395

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Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life by: Eiland, Howard; /Jennings, Michael W.
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Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life
by: Eiland, Howard; /Jennings, Michael W.

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.

Record # 387407

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Collected Essays (Volume 2) by: Bradley, F. H.

Collected Essays (Volume 2)
by: Bradley, F. H.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, pages 349-708. A clean, tight copy. Volume 2 only of a two volume set.

Record # 387424

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

Commentaires de Jean Calvin sur le Nouveau Testament. Tome quatreme by: Calvin, Jean

Commentaires de Jean Calvin sur le Nouveau Testament. Tome quatreme
by: Calvin, Jean

Hardcover. Geneva, Labor et Fides, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Epitre aux Romains. Texte etabli par Jules-Marcel Nicole avec la collaboration de Pierre Marcel et de Michel Reveillaud. Edition nouvelle publiee par la Societe Calviniste de France. Hardcover, gold cloth stamped in gilt, 380 pages. FRENCH TEXT. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 387439

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A sermon preached in Saint Maries Church of Oxford. Oxford 1638. by: Taylor, Jeremy
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A sermon preached in Saint Maries Church of Oxford. Oxford 1638.
by: Taylor, Jeremy

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.

Record # 387563

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Divine and Human Action: Essays in the Metaphysics of Theism by: Morris, Thomas V. (Editor)
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Divine and Human Action: Essays in the Metaphysics of Theism
by: Morris, Thomas V. (Editor)

Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 366 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Markings in pencil to a handful pages. Else a clean, tight copy. Twelve original essays advance the understanding of theistic metaphysics and it's capacity to illuminate a variety of fundamental issues.

Record # 387622

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Beyond Optimizing:A Study of Rational Choice by: Slote, Michael
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Beyond Optimizing:A Study of Rational Choice
by: Slote, Michael

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy. Michael Slote challenges the long-dominant conception of individual rationality, which has to a large extent shaped the very way we think about the essential problems and nature of rationality, morality, and the relations between them. He contests the accepted view by appealing to a set of real-life examples, claiming that our intuitive reaction to these examples illustrates a significant and prevalent, if not always dominant, way of thinking. Slote argues that common sense recognizes that one can reach a point where "enough is enough," be satisfied with what one has, and, hence, rationally decline an optimizing alternative. He suggests that, in the light of common sense, optimizing behavior is often irrational.

Record # 387636

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A Dissertation on Matter and Spirit (18th & 19th Century Works) by: Jackson, John

A Dissertation on Matter and Spirit (18th & 19th Century Works)
by: Jackson, John

Hardcover. Thoemmes Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 56 pages. A facsimile reprint of a pamphlet originally published in 1735 in London. Introduction by John Yolton. Although not a particularly well-known figure in the history of philosophy, the importance of Jackson's work as representative of some of the major controversies in the first half of the 18th century should not be overlooked. With the dualism of matter and spirit firmly established, many thinkers struggled for an explanation of mind/body interaction. In "A Dissertation on Matter and Spirit" Jackson attacks the argument that God is the only genuine cause of the influence of matter on mind, and is significantly swayed by Locke's belief in thinking matter. However, as might be expected of a clergyman, he maintains that matter and spirit are essentially different, but continually qualifies this as based only on conjecture. Clearly examining the key elements involved, this pamphlet is a significant contribution to the materialism-immaterialism debate. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387884

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Plato's Parmenides: Text, Translation & Introductory Essay by: Arnold Hermann / Douglas Hedley (Foreword)
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Plato's Parmenides: Text, Translation & Introductory Essay
by: Arnold Hermann / Douglas Hedley (Foreword)

Softcover. Las Vegas, Parmenides Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 246 pages. Plato's Parmenides presents the modern reader with a puzzle. Noted for being the most difficult of Platonic dialogues, it is also one of the most influential. This new edition of the work includes the Greek text on facing pages, with an English translation by Arnold Hermann in collaboration with Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Hermann's Introduction provides an overview and commentary aimed at scholars and first time readers alike.

Record # 387918

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Second Characters or the Language of Forms by: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury
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Second Characters or the Language of Forms
by: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 182 pages. Mostly written in 1712, "Second Characters" contains the plan and fourth treatise of a work intended as a complement to the "Characteristics" and represents an application of the theoretical principles of that work to the realm of art. B&w frontispiece. Includes dictionary of art terms and index of ease. A facsimile reprint of the 1914 edition. Clean copy.

Record # 387920

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Materialism Philosophically Examined by: Whitehead, John
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Materialism Philosophically Examined
by: Whitehead, John

Hardcover. UK, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 178 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1778 edition, Clean copy.

Record # 387921

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The Philosophy Of David Hume: A Critical Study of Its Origins and Central Doctrines by: Norman Kemp Smith
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The Philosophy Of David Hume: A Critical Study of Its Origins and Central Doctrines
by: Norman Kemp Smith

Hardcover. NY, Garland Publishing, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige boards with maroon lettering on the spine, 568 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1941 edition published in London. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387922

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Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Etc. - Vol. I by: Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury
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Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Etc. - Vol. I
by: Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury

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.

Record # 387923

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Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Etc. - Vol. 2 by: Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury
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Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times, Etc. - Vol. 2
by: Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 375 pages. VOLUME 2 ONLY. A facsimile reprint of the Grant Richards 1900 edition.

Record # 387924

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The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli by: Del Lucchese, Filippo
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The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli
by: Del Lucchese, Filippo

Hardcover. Edinburgh University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 210 pages. All students of Western political thought encounter Niccolo Machiavelli's work. Nevertheless, his writing continues to puzzle scholars and readers who are uncertain how to deal with the seeming paradoxes they encounter. 'The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli' is a clear account of Machiavelli's thought, major theories and central ideas. It critically engages with his work in a new way, one not based on the problematic Cambridge-school approach. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Machiavelli's ideas, it is the ideal companion to the study of this influential and challenging philosopher.

Record # 387926

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An Essay Concerning Toleration: And Other Writings on Law And Politics 1667-1683 by: Locke, John/ Milton, J. R.; Milton, Philip
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An Essay Concerning Toleration: And Other Writings on Law And Politics 1667-1683
by: Locke, John/ Milton, J. R.; Milton, Philip

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 458 pages. J. R. and Philip Milton present the first critical edition of John Locke's Essay concerning Toleration, based on all extant manuscripts, and a number of other writings on law and politics composed between 1667 and 1683. Although Locke never published any of these works himself they are of very great interest for students of his intellectual development because they are markedly different from the early works he wrote while at Oxford and show him working out ideas that were to appear in his mature political writings, the Two Treatises of Government and the Epistola de Tolerantia. With authoritative contextual guidance from the editors, this will be an invaluable resource for all historians of early modern philosophy, of legal, political, and religious thought, and of 17th-century Britain. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387946

Price: $120.00
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A Treatise of Freewill and An Introduction to Cudworth's Treatise by: Ralph Cudworth; W.R. Scott
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A Treatise of Freewill and An Introduction to Cudworth's Treatise
by: Ralph Cudworth; W.R. Scott

Hardcover. London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 85 plus 67 pages. Two titles in one volume. Reprints of 1838 and 1891 editions. Clean copy.

Record # 387952

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Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics by: Bobonich, Christopher
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Plato's Utopia Recast: His Later Ethics and Politics
by: Bobonich, Christopher

Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st pbk., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 643 pages. An illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich argues that in these works Plato both rethinks and revises important positions which he held in his better-known earlier works such as the Republic and the Phaedo. Bobonich analyses Plato's shift from a deeply pessimistic view of non-philosophers in the Republic, where he held that only philosophers were capable of virtue and happiness, to his far more optimistic position in the Laws, where he holds that the constitution and laws of his ideal city of Magnesia would allow all citizens toachieve a truly good life. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387953

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The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury by: Rand, Benjjamin (editor)
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The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury
by: Rand, Benjjamin (editor)

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 535 pages. This work contains Shaftesbury's philosophical notebooks from 1698 to 1712. It includes reflections on such topics as the natural affections, good and evil, God, self, the passions, pleasure and pain, nature, life, and philosophy, as well as a brief Life of the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, by his son. A reprint of the 1900 edition. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 387955

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Jesus and After: The First Eighty Years (Studies in Early Christianity) by: E. Bruce Brooks
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Jesus and After: The First Eighty Years (Studies in Early Christianity)
by: E. Bruce Brooks

Softcover. Amherst MA, Warring States Project, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages. This book is an overview of the history of Early Christianity. Each chapter is based on one selection from Jewish texts or from those produced by the Jesus sect of Judaism. It gives a sense of how things happened, from the words of certain ancient prophets, to Jesus' effort to bring about those prophecies, to the efforts of his followers to reshape their expectations after his death. It follows the movement as it came to regard Jesus himself as divine, a process which eventually led to the separation of the sect from the parent religion. It ends with a glimpse of a surviving early Christian church on the shores of the Black Sea, and how it appeared to the Roman administrator who was in charge of executing those who, like the Early Christians, refused Emperor worship. From the evidence of two deaconesses whom he tortured, which Pliny reported to Emperor Trajan, we too learn what were the regular practices of that church. Clean copy.

Record # 396519

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The Popes Against the Jews by: David I. Kertzer
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The Popes Against the Jews
by: David I. Kertzer

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 355 pages. In this meticulously researched, unflinching, and reasoned study, National Book Award finalist David I. Kertzer presents shocking revelations about the role played by the Vatican in the development of modern anti-Semitism. Working in long-sealed Vatican archives, Kertzer unearths startling evidence to undermine the Church's argument that it played no direct role in the spread of modern anti-Semitism. In doing so, he challenges the Vatican's recent official statement on the subject, We Remember. Kertzer tells an unsettling story that has stirred up controversy around the world and sheds a much-needed light on the past. Newspaper review laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 396681

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The Social Philosophy of Josiah Royce by: Brown, Stuart Gerry (Ed.)

The Social Philosophy of Josiah Royce
by: Brown, Stuart Gerry (Ed.)

Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 220 pages. Bookplate on inside front cover. Otherwise clean.

Record # 397153

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Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India by: Stephen N. Hay
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Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India
by: Stephen N. Hay

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 478 pages. Name on half-title page, otherwise clean.

Record # 397167

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Hypnotism Made Easy by: Ralph Wynn
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Hypnotism Made Easy
by: Ralph Wynn

Softcover. Los Angeles, Wilshire Book Company, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. Author name spelled Wynn on cover and Winn on title page. Has 1939 and 1956 dates on the copyright page. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397339

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by: Henry Cornelius Agrippa
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The Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy
by: Henry Cornelius Agrippa

Softcover. Kila MT, Kessinger Publishing, reprint, ND, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. A facsimile edition from 1654 (per the preface by R Turner). Comprises two (of the six) books that made up Robert Turner's 1655 first English edition of Agrippa's "Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy." The books are "Of Occult Philosophy or Of Magical Ceremonies," by Agrippa (a work renowned as one of the most straight forward guides to evocation published) and "The Heptameron or Magical Elements" by Peter de Abano, a set of rituals of conjuration, mapped out by day. Clean copy.

Record # 397357

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Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea by: Morgan, Edmund S.
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Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea
by: Morgan, Edmund S.

Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 2nd pr., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine, 159 pages. While Morgan's literary portfolio shows remarkable diversity, it is studded with works on Puritanism. 'Visible Saints' further solidifies his reputation as a leading authority on this subject. An expanded version of his Anson G. Phelps Lectures of 1962 (presented at New York University), this slender volume focuses on the central issue of church membership. Morgan posits and develops a revisionary main thesis: the practice of basing membership upon a declaration of experiencing saving grace, or 'conversion,' was first put into effect not in England, Holland, or Plymouth, as is commonly related, but in Massachusetts Bay Colony by non-separating Puritans. Characterized by stylistic grace and exegetic finesse, 'Visible Saints' is another scholarly milestone in the 'Millerian Age' of Puritan historiography. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397479

Price: $15.00
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Sermons on Infidelity: First American Edition with a Preliminary Essay by: Thomson, Andrew
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Sermons on Infidelity: First American Edition with a Preliminary Essay by: Thomson, AndrewSermons on Infidelity: First American Edition with a Preliminary Essay by: Thomson, Andrew

Sermons on Infidelity: First American Edition with a Preliminary Essay
by: Thomson, Andrew

Hardcover. Windsor VT, Richard and Tracy, 1st US, 1833, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished brown calf, 213 pages. Eleven page preliminary essay by the American editors, followed by 9 sermons, title label on spine. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397508

Price: $70.00
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F.C.S. Schiller and the Dimensions of Pragmatism (INSCRIBED COPY) by: Winetrout, Kenneth
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F.C.S. Schiller and the Dimensions of Pragmatism (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Winetrout, Kenneth

Hardcover. Columbus OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 170 pages. LONG INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf dated 1987.

Record # 397643

Price: $18.00
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Der Rig-Veda (Four Volumes) by: Karl Friederich Geldner

Der Rig-Veda (Four Volumes)
by: Karl Friederich Geldner

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1st thus, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 volume set of Geldner's German translation from the original Sanskrit, GERMAN TEXT, Volumes 33-36 of the Harvard Oriental Series edited by Charles Rockwell Lanman. Volume 4 has publication date of 1957. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise, unmarked, bright, and crisp copies. The Rigveda or Rig Veda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (suktas). It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts (sruti) known as the Vedas. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 397657

Price: $500.00
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Antiquarian Religion & Philosophy Books

This section brings together used, rare and out-of-print works in philosophy, theology and religious thought, from primary texts to scholarly studies. Titles include Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, E.R. Dodds's edition of Proclus: The Elements of Theology and H.S. Harris's Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts.

The shelves range across the Western canon and beyond, with volumes such as Jonathan Bennett's Learning from Six Philosophers and dual-language religious texts. Multi-volume sets and antiquarian printings are common, and editions range from student reading copies to fine older bindings, making this a good place to track down scarce and long-out-of-print works.

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