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Damião de Gois: The Life and Thought of a Portuguese Humanist, 1502-1574
ISBN: 9789401034906 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scholars have given relatively little attention to sixteenth-century Portuguese humanism, although Portugal's vital influence on the humanistic thirst for learning has been readily acknowledged. Through her heroic explorations of distant lands and dangerous sea routes, Portugal infected many humanists with the excitement of discovery, none more than Damiao de Gois, Portuguese student of history. Gois, although generally little known, was - in his life and finally as a victim of the Inquisition in Portugal - thoroughly representative of the course of sixteenth-century Erasmian humanism in...
Scholars have given relatively little attention to sixteenth-century Portuguese humanism, although Portugal's vital influence on the humanistic thirst...
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The Politics of Obedience (Large Print Edition): The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
ISBN: 9781479293612 / Angielski / Miękka / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com
Etienne de La Boetie was born in Sarlat, in the Perigord region of southwest France, in 1530, to an aristocratic family, and became a dear friend of Michel de Montaigne. But he ought to be remembered for this astonishingly important essay, one of the greatest in the history of political thought. It will shake the way you think of the state. His thesis and argument amount to the best answer to Machiavelli ever penned as well as one of the seminal essays in defense of liberty. La Boetie's task is to investigate the nature of the state and... LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com
Etienne de La Boetie was born in Sarlat, in the Perigord region of southwest France, in 1530, ... |
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The Prince
ISBN: 9781503343658 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The American Founders and the Classics
ISBN: 9781631897436 / Angielski / Miękka / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The American Founders and the Classics analyzes theories of democracy from America's founders and connects them with the ideas of classical and Renaissance political philosophy. The text explores classical thinkers from Ancient Greece, political writing from the Enlightenment, and America's founders.
Students will read Aristotle's Politics: Book I and Cicero's On the Laws. They will consider how Montesquieu's The Spirit of the Laws and Rousseau's The Social Contract may have impacted the work of American founders such as Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry,... "The American Founders and the Classics analyzes theories of democracy from America's founders and connects them with the ideas of classical an...
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The Prince
ISBN: 9781514828656 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholastic doctrines of the time concerning how to consider politics and ethics."
The Prince is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. The Prince is sometimes claimed to b...
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Giordano Bruno nella storia della cultura
ISBN: 9788896576670 / Włoski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Pensées
ISBN: 9781781395264 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blaise Pascal's famous Pensees (Thoughts) is, in reality, a collection of notes he made for a book he never wrote. Many of the thoughts are fragmentary in nature, and the sectionalising and numbering was devised by a later editor. Yet they contain the key ideas of his religious philosophy, including his famous wager, as well as many other insights and ideas such as his celebrated comment on Cleopatra's nose. This edition contains notes, a topical index, and T. S. Eliot's introduction. Eliot says "Pascal is one of those writers who will be and who must be studied afresh by men in every...
Blaise Pascal's famous Pensees (Thoughts) is, in reality, a collection of notes he made for a book he never wrote. Many of the thoughts are fragmentar...
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Against the Jews and the Gentiles: Books I-IV
ISBN: 9780674974975 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, he participated actively in the public life of the Florentine republic and embraced the new humanist scholarship of the quattrocento, oriented to the service of the state and the reform of religion. Mastering not only classical Latin but also Greek and Hebrew, he gained access to a whole library of sources previously unknown in the Latin West. Among the fruits of his studies is his treatise Against the Jews and the Gentiles,...
Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florent...
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Finding God in the World: Approaches of the Renaissance Occult Philosophers to the Nature and Value of Matter
ISBN: 9781905297979 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world of the Renaissance occult philosophers was ultimately composed of two substances, one spiritual and the other material. It was understood that all things in the universe, whether corporeal or angelic, existed through a combination of both. However, occult studies were principally directed toward communion with and understanding of God, while research tended to focus on the spiritual dimension of the subject. Matter was as integral to the universe as spiritual forces. The majority of the substance within human beings and in the corporeal world was material, and while the goal of... The world of the Renaissance occult philosophers was ultimately composed of two substances, one spiritual and the other material. It was understood... |
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The Prince
ISBN: 9781542948081 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Macchiavelli (1469 - 1527) is sometimes considered the founder of modern politics and remembered for the extreme tactics advocated for maintaining power. This is a reprint of his work as translated by W. K. Marriott and published in 1908. This most notably includes "The Prince" and "Description of the Methods Adopted by the Duke Valentino when Murdering Vitellozzo Vitelli, Oliberotto Da Fermo, The Signor Paolo, and the Duke Di Gravina Orsini." This edition attempts to reproduce Marriott's translation including the spelling in the initial print.
Macchiavelli (1469 - 1527) is sometimes considered the founder of modern politics and remembered for the extreme tactics advocated for maintaining pow...
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Treasure Rocks of Neah-kah-nie Mountain
ISBN: 9781300722250 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics: Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions
ISBN: 9781350028005 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Actual and the Possible: Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy
ISBN: 9780198786436 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known moments of that history.
The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy...
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Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza: The Unity of Body and Mind
ISBN: 9781474433181 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, and using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through affects, actions and passions.
Revisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body ...
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The Orator: The Mirror of Eloquence
ISBN: 9781979093989 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Elijah del Medigo and Paduan Aristotelianism: Investigating the Human Intellect
ISBN: 9781350074408 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Plato's Persona: Marsilio Ficino, Renaissance Humanism, and Platonic Traditions
ISBN: 9780812249859 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1484, humanist philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino published the first complete Latin translation of Plato's extant works. Plato's Persona is the first book to undertake a synthetic study of Ficino's interpretation of the Platonic corpus.
In 1484, humanist philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino published the first complete Latin translation of Plato's extant works. Plato's Persona i...
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Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Science, Rationalism, and Religion
ISBN: 9780199580903 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. T. M. Rudavsky tells the story of the development of Jewish philosophy from the 10th century to Spinoza in the 17th, as part of a dialogue with medieval Christian and Islamic thought. She gives a broad historical survey of major figures and schools within the medieval Jewish tradition, focusing on the tensions between Judaism and rational thought.
T. M. Rudavsky tells the story of the development of Jewish philosophy from the 10th century to Spinoza in the 17th, as part of a dialogue with mediev...
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Affirming Divergence: Deleuze's Reading of Leibniz
ISBN: 9781474417747 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of Leibniz's influence on Deleuze's philosophy
An account of Leibniz's influence on Deleuze's philosophy
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Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics
ISBN: 9780691183503 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To what extent was Machiavelli a "Machiavellian"? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through original interpretations of Niccolo Machiavelli's
To what extent was Machiavelli a "Machiavellian"? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power...
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