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Softcover. NY, Liberal Arts Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 615 pages. Translated with an introduction by Merritt H. Moore. Some light fading to edges of yellow wrappers, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Out of print and uncommon.

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, red cloth with gilt stamping to spines. A reprint of the 1758 Fourth Edition. Introduction by Victor Nuovo. 555 total pages plus Index. Vol. 1 with fading to spine and part of front cover, otherwise tight and clean.

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 570 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1660 edition. One of 9 volumes in More's collected works. Pencil marking to 3 pages, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, pages. Seventeenth-century England has long been heralded as the birthplace of a so-called 'new' philosophy. Yet what contemporaries might have understood by 'old' philosophy has been little appreciated. In this book Dmitri Levitin examines English attitudes to ancient philosophy in unprecedented depth, demonstrating the centrality of engagement with the history of philosophy to almost all educated persons, whether scholars, clerics, or philosophers themselves, and aligning English intellectual culture closely to that of continental Europe. Drawing on a vast array of sources, Levitin challenges the assumption that interest in ancient ideas was limited to out-of-date 'ancients' or was in some sense 'pre-enlightened'; indeed, much of the intellectual justification for the new philosophy came from re-writing its history. At the same time, the deep investment of English scholars in pioneering forms of late humanist erudition led them to develop some of the most innovative narratives of ancient philosophy in early modern Europe. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 303 pages. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367 47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias s relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343 2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of Peripatetics ), the Lyceum at Athens. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, like new.

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. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 244 pages illustrated in color. Scholarly essays accompany this monograph on the Japanese-American artist. In publisher's shrinkwrap. Published to coincide with a series of major exhibitions extending beyond 2007, Ascending Chaos is the first major retrospective of Japanese-American artist Masami Teraoka's prolific and acclaimed work thus far. In Teraoka's paintings which have evolved from his wry mimicry of Japanese woodblock prints to much larger and complex canvasses reminiscent of Bosch and Brueghel the political and the personal collide in a riot of sexually frank tableaux. Populated by geishas and goddesses, priests, and politicians, and prominent contemporary figures, these paintings are the spectacular next phase of a wildly inventive career. With essays by renowned art critics who discuss how Teraoka's work inventively marries east and west, sex and religion, Ascending Chaos is a critical overview of this cultural trickster.

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.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 272 pages. Mr. Wills takes the disarray of the Catholic Church as a model of institutional breakdown, tracing parallel agonies in church and state... He asks whether life can rise again from our institutional ruins, and finds promising signs of this, not only among Catholic "prophets" but Protestant and Jewish ones as well." Name on front leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled. unclipped dust jacket. 325 pages including index. The author explores Sunday's career as the product and expression of his era. A lively account of the famous revivalist's life and the inner workings of mass revivalism. Name stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt lettering on spine faded, 271 pages. The book covers the life and work of Bishop Butler and the impact his philosophy had on the Age of Reason. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 313 pages. The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius, whose English translators include King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen Elizabeth I, ranks among the most remarkable books to be written by a prisoner awaiting the execution of a tyrannical death sentence. Its interpretation is bound up with his other writings on mathematics and music, on Aristotelian and propositional logic, and on central themes of Christian dogma. Chadwick begins by tracing the career of Boethius, a Roman rising to high office under the Gothic King Theoderic the Great, and suggests that his death may be seen as a cruel by-product of Byzantine ambitions to restore Roman imperial rule after its elimination in the West in AD 476. Subsequent chapters examine in detail his educational programme in the liberal arts designed to avert a threatened collapse of culture and his ambition to translate into Latin everything he could find on Plato and Aristotle. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. Oxford, Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1st, 1743, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated in parts. Leather binding shows heavy wear to edges, especially corners. Gilt decoration on spine and stamped embellishment on front. Heavy foxing on pages. Gutter cracked in center. Black and white illustrations.

Hardcover. Cambridge, England, Cambridge University, 1st Edition, 1777, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in polished calf (agewear--see image), gilt bands on spine. Front cover boards and front flyleaf still attached but coming loose from binding,Binding tight otherwise. Spine straight. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf and dated signatures (178? and 1792) on title page (see image). Some light pencil on top of title page (see image). Tanning throughout from age. Beautiful old volume, a collector's dream.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 286 pages. Sarah Hutton presents a rich historical study of one of the most fertile periods in modern philosophy. It was in the seventeenth century that Britain's first philosophers of international stature and lasting influence emerged. Its most famous names, Hobbes and Locke, rank alongside the greatest names in the European philosophical canon. Bacon too belongs with this constellation of great thinkers, although his status as a philosopher tends to be obscured by his statusas father of modern science. The seventeenth century is normally regarded as the dawn of modernity following the breakdown of the Aristotelian synthesis which had dominated intellectual life since the middle ages. In this period of transformational change, Bacon, Hobbes, Locke are acknowledged tohave contributed significantly to the shape of European philosophy from their own time to the present day. But these figures did not work in isolation. Sarah Hutton places them in their intellectual context, including the social, political and religious conditions in which philosophy was practised. She treats seventeenth-century philosophy as an ongoing like all conversations, some voices will dominate, some will be more persuasive than others and there will be enormous variationsin tone from the polite to polemical, matter-of-fact, intemperate. The conversation model allows voices to be heard which would otherwise be discounted. Hutton shows the importance of figures normally regarded as 'minor' players in philosophy (e.g. Herbert of Cherbury, Cudworth, More, Burthogge,Norris, Toland) as well as others who have been completely overlooked, notably female philosophers. Crucially, instead of emphasizing the break between seventeenth-century philosophy and its past, the conversation model makes it possible to trace continuities between the Renaissance and seventeenth century, across the seventeenth century and into the eighteenth century, while at the same time acknowledging the major changes which occurred.

Hardcover. Delhi, Motilal, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 320 pages. All forms of Buddhism--The Theravada, the Mahayana and the Vajrayana--affirm the perfectability of the person, and one finds this notion of perfection embodied in three images; the arahant, the bodhisattva and the mahasiddha. Reader also finds, in scholarly treatments of Buddhism, much made of the perceived differences among these three `vehicles` (yana). By close textual analysis as well as by extensive field work, Katz criticizes this emphasis on difference and prefers to treat Buddhism as a whole, a position he finds in accord with the teachings of both Buddhists and Buddhist texts. By a close examination of these three images of human perfection, bridges among the Theravada, the Mahayana and the Vajrayana are built and continuities within Buddhism are explored. This comparison involves pioneering discussions of Buddhist philosophy of language and hermeneutics, which are facilitated by Katz`s familiarity with Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan Buddhist texts as well as his sympathetic involvement with the living Buddhist tradition. Light pencil marking to several pages in the margins. Otherwise clean, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. 4 b&w plates. Covers with edge wear, gilt slightly faded. Library bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean, no markings.

Hardcover. London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1st thus, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Facsimile reprints of the two works (1696 and 1697). Introduction by John Valdimir Price. Approx, 430 pages, light pencil markings to about 20 pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 435 pages. Cicero's Topica is one of the canonical texts on ancient rhetorical theory. This is the first full-scale commentary on this work, and the first critical edition of the work that is informed by a full analysis of its translation. Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul, and constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and was one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Octagon Books, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping, 224 pages. First published in 1933. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 347 pages. Light pencil notes on rear fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy. Volume 1 only of a two volume set.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 4th pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 656 pages. John Rawls's work on justice has drawn more commentary and aroused wider attention than any other work in moral or political philosophy in the twentieth century. Rawls is the author of two major treatises, A Theory of Justice (1971) and Political Liberalism (1993); it is said that A Theory of Justice revived political philosophy in the English-speaking world. But before and after writing his great treatises Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of these essays articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books. They are important in and of themselves because of the deep issues about the nature of justice, moral reasoning, and liberalism they raise as well as for the light they shed on the evolution of Rawls's views. Some of the articles tackle issues not addressed in either book. They help identify some of the paths open to liberal theorists of justice and some of the knotty problems which liberal theorists must seek to resolve. A complete collection of John Rawls's essays. Owner's name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages. Adolf Grunbaum is one of the giants of 20th century philosophy of science. This volume is the first of three collecting his most essential and highly influential work. The essays collected in this first volume focus on three related areas. They discuss scientific rationality-the problem of what it takes for a theory to be called scientific, and ask whether it is plausible to draw a clear distinction between science and non-science as was famously proposed by Karl Popper. They delve into the debate between determinism and indeterminism, in both science and in the humanities. Grunbaum defends the position of the Humane Determinist, which then leads to a thorough criticism of the current theological approaches to ethics and morality-where Grunbaum defends an explicit Secular Humanism-as well as of prominent theistic interpretations of twentieth century physical cosmologies. Name, date on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

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.