religion

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 340 pages. Proclus was the most important figure in Neo-Platonism when it was established as the dominant philosophy of Late Antiquity. Neo-Platonism is not only the final flowering of Greek thought but also the mode in which it was transmitted to the Byzantine, Western European and Islamic civilisations. Stripping away the complexities surrounding this traditionally difficult philosopher, Lucas Siorvanes takes the reader through Proclus' metaphysics and theory of knowledge with original research examining all aspects of Proclus' work. This is the first book which places Proclus in his complete intellectual context and sheds new light on aspects of Proclus' thought, to which previous scholars have rarely done justice. - Presents a general survey of Proclus and his Neo-Platonism- Introduces results of original research, mainly on his metaphysics, theory of knowledge and science. All areas of Proclus' philosophical interest are covered including religion, physics, astronomy, mathematics and poetry. His philosophy is found in all these because concern with being and truth is central to all. Also introduced is the neglected area of his natural philosophy with its remarkable freshness of thought punctuated by the rejection of Aristotelian science and Ptolemy's cosmology. In this book, Proclus is shown as much more than just a metaphysician. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth, silver lettering on spine, 435 pages. Appendix, List of English Translations (of books cited), Index of Names, and Index of Subjects. Clean, bright copy, lacks dust jacket.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 260 pages. No dust jacket. John Locke's untitled manuscript "Questions concerning the Law of Nature" (1664) was his only work focused on the subject of natural law, a circumstance that is especially surprising since his published writings touch on the subject frequently, if inconclusively. Containing a substantial critical apparatus, this new edition of Locke's manuscript is faithful to Locke's original intentions and to the format he chose for his discourse on the law of nature-a late-Scholastic quaestio disputata, the form through which in 1664 the young Locke debated questions with his students as moral censor of Christ Church.For this volume, Robert Horwitz provides an introduction summarizing the history of the manuscript and analyzing Locke's role in the development of thinking on natural law. Jenny Strauss Clay offers a superb critical edition of the Latin text, for which she has supplemented the Latin text of Manuscript B, written by an amanuensis, with Manuscript A, a first draft in Locke's own hand. Diskin Clay's precise English translation-with the Latin presented on facing pages-is accompanied by annotations identifying Locke's references and allusions and explaining difficulties of translation.In the view of Horwitz, Clay, and Clay, Questions concerning the Law of Nature shows a tension between several opposing conceptions of natural law. In developing this view, the editors break with W. von Leyden, who prepared the first edition of the text and who interpreted Locke's understanding of natural law squarely within a Christian framework. The editors here present a fresh interpretation of Locke as a thinker who posed a series of subtle challenges to traditional natural law doctrine. That Locke was aware of the political danger of this challenge is evident from his refusal to publish the work during his lifetime and from the care he took to conceal these manuscripts among his possessions. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. UK, Bristol Thoemmes, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, gilt title on spine, 120 pages. Originally published in 1951, this concise book presents an engaging study of the works and influence of the renowned English philosopher Ralph Cudworth (1617-88), the leader of the Cambridge Platonists. A bibliography of writings by and about Cudworth is also included, together with an appendix section on his manuscripts. The text was an early work by Australian philosopher and historian of ideas John Passmore (1914-2004). This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Cudworth, the Cambridge Platonists and the historical development of philosophy. Light pencil marking in margins, ink name on front fly leaf. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Edinburch and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 2nd revised edition, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: 463 pages. Vol. 2: 500 pages. Scarce. Hardcovers. Colored endpapers (black). Light pencil notes/marks in margins. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, light age wear to covers. Front endpapers' gutters are split, binding is good. Spines straight. Edges untrimmed, pages and edges have some tanning from age. Some foxing to preliminary pages. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Cooper Square, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 862 pages. All four parts in one volume. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages. Examines the reception of Socinian ideas in England, providing a rereading of political and ecclesiastical developments during the English Revolution. Light pencil marking to 10 pages, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY/London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 350 pages. Reason in Action collects John Finnis' work on the theory of practical reason and moral philosophy. The essays in the volume range from foundational issues of meta-ethics to the practical application of natural law theory to ethical problems such as nuclear deterrence, obscenity and freespeech, and abortion and cloning.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages including index. Translation and Introduction by Mahmoud Sadri & Ahmad Sadri. Clean copy.

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.

Softcover. Rochester, NY, Austin Publishing Co., 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover booklet with stapled binding. Paper wrappers have heavy wear, soil and chipping. Booklet spiritualism in New York. Edges are chipped and frayed.

Softcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 475 pages, What is reduction? Must all discussions of the mind, value, color, biological organisms, and persons aim to reduce these to objects and properties that can be studied by more basic, physical science? Conversely, does failure to achieve a reduction undermine the legitimacy of higher levels of description or explanation? Though reduction has long been a favorite method of analysis in all areas of philosophy, in recent years philosophers have attempted to avoid these traditional alternatives by developing an account of higher-level phenomena which shows them to be grounded in, but not reducible to, basic physical objects and properties. The contributors to this volume examine the motivations for such anti-reductionist views, and assess their coherence and success, in a number of different fields, including moral and mental philosophy, psychology, organic biology, and the social sciences. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, 407 pages. Chapters include: Myth and Ritual, Religion and Healing, Witchcraft and Sorcery, 20th Century Theories of Religion, The Science of Religion and others. Owner's small sticker inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY/London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 450 pages. The essays in Religion and Public Reasons seek to argue for, and illustrate, a central element of John Finnis' theory of natural law: that the main tenets of personal and political morality, and of a good legal order, are taught both by reason (arguments accessible to everyone) and byauthentic divine revelation (teachings accessible to all who have a reasonable faith in its witnesses). The author's main books each include arguments for rejecting atheism and agnosticism; several papers here take up these arguments and indicate ways in which they open onto the reasonable grounds for accepting that more about God's nature, and about the meaning of Creation (including ongoing naturalevolution), is disclosed by the revelation carried far forward among the Jewish people, and given definitive form by the Jews and Greeks who assembled in the universal Church, as witnesses of Christ, to carry forward that revelation into our present. Several papers argue that "public reason"properly includes such a religion, and that Humeian, Nietzschean, Deweyian, Rawlsian or other atheistically or deistic understandings of a reasonable secularism are badly mistaken. Many substantial papers record the author's position in controversies within Catholicism since the 1960's: on social justice, contraception and abortion; nuclear deterrence; Newman on conscience before pope; Maritain's hopes for a new Christendom and von Balthasar's for a hell empty of human persons; and on "proportionalism" and Lonerganian "historical consciousness" as moral-theological methods. Previously unpublished papers include several University and college sermons, and a substantial introduction.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 518 pages. This volume collects for the first time in a single volume all of Kant's writings on religion and rational theology. These works were written during a period of conflict between Kant and the Prussian authorities over his religious teachings. The historical context and progression of this conflict are charted in the general introduction to the volume and in the translators' introductions to particular texts. All the translations are new with the exception of The Conflict of the Faculties, where the translation has been revised and redited to conform to the guidelines of the Cambridge Edition. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 488 pages, b&w illustrations. Addressing problems of objectivity and authenticity, Sabine MacCormack reconstructs how Andean religion was understood by the Spanish in light of seventeenth-century European theological and philosophical movements, and by Andean writers trying to find in it antecedents to their new Christian faith. Some fading to spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Free Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 615 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket with spine fading, standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 269 pages. 'Weber's famous study of the 'affinity' between the rise of rational bourgeois capitalism in England and Calvinist-Puritanism has for almost a century stirred up a cloud of dust and misunderstanding. Toward the end of settling some of the dust no one has previously made such an acute analysis of pre-revolutionary England as has David Little. On the one hand, he has applied and extended Weber's method, especially in the sphere of the law-monopoly and corporation law-thus filling a gap in these studies. He has also delineated the sharply conflicting conceptions of social order and of legitimation. On the the other hand, Little has given an invaluable critical survey of the extensive literature of Weber's thesis. This is a landmark in the study of the complex and varying relations between religion and society.' -James Luther Adams, Harvard Divinity School. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Exeter UK, Imprint Academic, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 179 pages. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Much of the scholarly attention attracted by Michael Oakeshott's writings has focused upon his philosophical characterisation of the relations that constitute moral association in the modern world. A less noticed, but equally significant, aspect of Oakeshott's moral philosophy is his account of the type of person (or persona) required to enter into and enjoy moral association. Oakeshott's best known characterisation of the persona best suited to moral association occurs in his identification of a 'morality of the individual'. The book argues that Oakeshott's characterisations of religious and poetic experience provide a more detailed account of the type of persona that emerged in response to what it perceived as an invitation to participate in moral association in the modern world.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Ticknor and Fields, 1st Edition, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's dated (1868) inscription on preliminary page (faded). Red cloth cover boards with beveled edges (slight moisture damage to front cover board), gilt title with decoration on spine and front cover board. Some agewear. Gilt top edge. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages unmarked and clean.

Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Kingston Press, Incorporated, The, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 227 pages. Light foxing to top and fore-edge. Minor wear to dust jacket; spine slightly faded. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Kingston Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 227 pages, bibliography and index. A scarce scholarly history. Slight sunning to dust jacket spine, otherwise like new, clean and tight.