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The Social Philosophers
Regular price $26.95 Save $-26.95Western ideas of moral authority, freedom, consensus, and personality emerge from humankind’s search for community
In this provocative, classic, absorbing work of social and intellectual history, Robert Nisbet advances the idea that Western social philosophy arose during the disintegration of the ancient Greek and Roman communities, and has been preoccupied ever since with the problem of community lost and community to be gained. He further contends that Western ideas of moral authority, freedom, consensus, and personality take on their distinctive character when viewed through the lens of humankind’s search for community.
Much of the book’s originality lies in its organization. Nisbet distinguishes six major types of community in Western life and thought: military, political, religious, revolutionary, ecological, and plural. Each of these is presented as a continuing current in Western history and as a vital context to the central ideas of social philosophy. From Plato and Aristotle down to such modern thinkers as Marx, Tocqueville, Weber, Kropotkin, and Fanon, we are able to see the dominant ideas and perspectives of Western thought as responses to conflicts and crises—above all, to those affecting humankind’s quest for community. Written by one of America’s best-known historical sociologists, and with a new foreword by Luke Sheahan, The Social Philosophers will be of interest to the student as well as the general reader.
Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment
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As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term "Counter-Enlightenment" nor the concept. However, more than any other figure since the eighteenth century, Berlin appropriated the term, made it the heart of his own political thought, and imbued his interpretations of particular thinkers with its meanings and significance. His diverse treatment of writers at the margins of the Enlightenment, who themselves reflected upon what they took to be its central currents, were at once historical and philosophical. Berlin sought to show that our patterns of culture, manufactured by ourselves, must be explained differently from the ways in which we seek to fathom laws of nature.
Moses Maimonides’ Two Treatises on the Regimen of Health
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Academica
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Contents: Part I: (I) Plato and the Authorship of the “Epinomis”; (II) Platonic “topoi” and the Structure of the “Epinomis”; (III) Philip of Opus; (IV) The “Epinomis,” Aristotle, and the Early Academy; and (V) The Influence of the “Epinomis” on the Formation of a Platonic Dogma; Part II: The Manuscripts of the “Epinomis”; The Indirect Tradition; Modern Editions; “Sigla”; Text; Commentary; Appendix I: Repertory of Conjectures on the “Epinomis”; Appendix II: On the Greek Word “habit” in Plato, Speusippus, and Aristotle; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Addenda; Indices: Ancient Passages, Proper Names, and Grammatical and Lexicographical; and Errata.
James Logan’s “The Duties of Man As They May Be Deduced from Nature”
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James Logan (1674-1751) of Philadelphia was a luminary with few equals in British America in the first half of the 18th century. He amassed the largest scholar’s library in the colonies, wrote and published on botanical science and optics, was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer, and a master of languages ancient and modern. As the representative of the Penn family in the colony, he was enmeshed in Pennsylvania politics, holding several major positions, including Chief Justice. In 1734 Logan turned his creative drive to moral philosophy, He compiled six or seven chapters, but in the end could not finish his treatise, and they survived only in a manuscript which was found about 1969. This analysis gives Logan’s effort new life.
Maurus of Salerno
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Jatakastava or “Praise of the Buddha’s Former Births”
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Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
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Chu Hsi (1130-1200) exerted a lasting influence on the thought and life of the Chinese in subsequent cent. The core of his synthesis was moral and social philosophy, but it also included knowledge about the natural world. His doctrine of ke-wu (invest. of things) made him mindful of the specialized knowledged in such “scientific” traditions as astronomy, harmonics, med., etc. This study of Chu Hsi’s thought gives a systematic account of the basic concepts of his natural philosophy. Also discusses Chu Hsi’s actual knowledge about the natural world. And examines the relation between Chu Hsi and Chinese “scientific” traditions and compares his natural knowledge with that of the Western scientific tradition.
Paradoxes of Free Will
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Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable inconsistencies and contradictions. In this 2002 J.F. Lewis Award-winning monograph, Gunther Stent traces the origins and development of the paradoxes of free will in this well-crafted introduction to philosophical debates regarding freedom of will. Free will poses one of the oldest and most vexatious philosophical problems, dating back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greece. Pure theoretical reason implies that our actions are determined, while practical theoretical reason tells us that our will is free. Stent examines the arguments of moral responsibility versus determinism, from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, Niels Bohr, and Max Planck.
Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles
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An updated & slightly abridged English translation of the author’s previous work on the 5th century B.C. Neoplatonist Hierocles, published in various places. This work allows Hierocles’ median position in the history of Neoplatonic philosophy, between Iamblichus & Syrianus-Proclus, to emerge. Contents: (I) Biographical Elements; (II) Hierocles’ Ideas on the History of Platonic Philosophy; (III) Hierocles’ Philosophical Ideas on Matter, the Demiurge, & the Soul; & (IV) Hierocles’ Philosophical Ideas on Providence. Translated from the French.
Some Assumptions of Aristotle
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Theater of Man
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Born in Spain and long-time resident of Bruges, Juan Luis Vives is one of the keenest, and most neglected, minds of the northern Renaissance. A many-sided intellect and critical observer of the contemporary scene, Vives' contribution includes treatises on metaphysics, psychology, education, rhetoric, logic, religion, and social reform. And it is precisely the central premise of this monograph that what links these diverse works together and turns Vives literary production into a whole larger than the sum of its parts is the author's single-minded commitment to the Socratic dictum that an unexamined life is not worth living. But because man's Fall caused him to lose his pristine ability to accomplish that task as an individual, he must now do it in the context of a God-mandated, man-created institution: society, whose origins and evolution Vives explains in Stoic terms. Building on a foundation of Socratic/ Aristotelian optimism and Augustinian pessimism, he concludes that social man can indeed reach the bonitas which alone makes beatitude possible. But at a price, for Vives the Skeptic insists that man must forego the use of that ratio speculativa which seduces him into thinking that he can probe into nature's being and understand his own divine nature.
Maistre Nicole Oresme
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Evils of Necessity
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Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825), a prominent attorney and U.S. Congressman from S. Carolina and Maryland, was one of the most influential Federalists of the early national period. The South’s leading proponent of the Jay Treaty, a framer of the Sedition Act, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Comm., a dogged supporter of Aaron Burr, an outspoken counsel for John Pickering and Samuel Chase, and two-time failed V.P. candidate, Harper is traditionally remembered as an extreme example of unthinking, reactionary conservatism in an era of intense partisanship and bitter sectional conflict. This revisionist account reinterprets Harper’s political philosophy in light of his personal struggle with the moral dilemma of slavery.
Sophie de Grouchy Letters on Sympathy (1798)
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Sophie de Grouchy, marquise de Condorcet, was a woman of the French Enlightenment who was a member of the Girondin revolutionary faction, ran an influential salon, and translated Adam Smith and Thomas Paine. Her “Lettres sur la sympathie” is a work on moral philosophy, a theory of social progress, and a feminist reassessment of liberal philosophy and social contract theory. Editor Brown brings to light an important philosophical text from the end of the 18th cent. which will be valuable to scholars of the French Enlightenment, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment, women’s studies, and the history of women in philosophy. “Succeeds in restoring Sophie de Grouchy’s text to its rightful place in the history of philosophy and ideas.” Illus.
Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian Philosophy
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This is a print on demand publication. This work deals with a topic to which philosophy, most notably analytic philosophy, has given considerable attention. Indian thinkers discuss the denotation of generic terms in a very sophisticated manner at a very early time. This book seeks to make these discussions available to philosophers today. Tables.
New Fragment of Xenocrates and its Implications
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Philosophical Lectures by Samuel Williams, LL.D., on the Constitution, Duty, and Religion of Man
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This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Gaetano Filangieri and His Science of Legislation
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This is a print on demand edition of a hard-to-find journal.
Search for a New Voltaire
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This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
James Logan’s “The Duties of Man As They May Be Deduced from Nature”
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James Logan (1674-1751) of Philadelphia was a luminary with few equals in British America in the first half of the 18th century. He amassed the largest scholar’s library in the colonies, wrote and published on botanical science and optics, was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer, and a master of languages ancient and modern. As the representative of the Penn family in the colony, he was enmeshed in Pennsylvania politics, holding several major positions, including Chief Justice. In 1734 Logan turned his creative drive to moral philosophy, He compiled six or seven chapters, but in the end could not finish his treatise, and they survived only in a manuscript which was found about 1969. This analysis gives Logan’s effort new life.
Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian Philosophy
Regular price $60.00 Save $-60.00
This is a print on demand publication. This work deals with a topic to which philosophy, most notably analytic philosophy, has given considerable attention. Indian thinkers discuss the denotation of generic terms in a very sophisticated manner at a very early time. This book seeks to make these discussions available to philosophers today. Tables.
Theater of Man
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Born in Spain and long-time resident of Bruges, Juan Luis Vives is one of the keenest, and most neglected, minds of the northern Renaissance. A many-sided intellect and critical observer of the contemporary scene, Vives' contribution includes treatises on metaphysics, psychology, education, rhetoric, logic, religion, and social reform. And it is precisely the central premise of this monograph that what links these diverse works together and turns Vives literary production into a whole larger than the sum of its parts is the author's single-minded commitment to the Socratic dictum that an unexamined life is not worth living. But because man's Fall caused him to lose his pristine ability to accomplish that task as an individual, he must now do it in the context of a God-mandated, man-created institution: society, whose origins and evolution Vives explains in Stoic terms. Building on a foundation of Socratic/ Aristotelian optimism and Augustinian pessimism, he concludes that social man can indeed reach the bonitas which alone makes beatitude possible. But at a price, for Vives the Skeptic insists that man must forego the use of that ratio speculativa which seduces him into thinking that he can probe into nature's being and understand his own divine nature.
Studies on the Neoplatonist Hierocles
Regular price $45.00 Save $-45.00
An updated & slightly abridged English translation of the author’s previous work on the 5th century B.C. Neoplatonist Hierocles, published in various places. This work allows Hierocles’ median position in the history of Neoplatonic philosophy, between Iamblichus & Syrianus-Proclus, to emerge. Contents: (I) Biographical Elements; (II) Hierocles’ Ideas on the History of Platonic Philosophy; (III) Hierocles’ Philosophical Ideas on Matter, the Demiurge, & the Soul; & (IV) Hierocles’ Philosophical Ideas on Providence. Translated from the French.
Academica
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Contents: Part I: (I) Plato and the Authorship of the “Epinomis”; (II) Platonic “topoi” and the Structure of the “Epinomis”; (III) Philip of Opus; (IV) The “Epinomis,” Aristotle, and the Early Academy; and (V) The Influence of the “Epinomis” on the Formation of a Platonic Dogma; Part II: The Manuscripts of the “Epinomis”; The Indirect Tradition; Modern Editions; “Sigla”; Text; Commentary; Appendix I: Repertory of Conjectures on the “Epinomis”; Appendix II: On the Greek Word “habit” in Plato, Speusippus, and Aristotle; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Addenda; Indices: Ancient Passages, Proper Names, and Grammatical and Lexicographical; and Errata.
Evils of Necessity
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Robert Goodloe Harper (1765-1825), a prominent attorney and U.S. Congressman from S. Carolina and Maryland, was one of the most influential Federalists of the early national period. The South’s leading proponent of the Jay Treaty, a framer of the Sedition Act, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Comm., a dogged supporter of Aaron Burr, an outspoken counsel for John Pickering and Samuel Chase, and two-time failed V.P. candidate, Harper is traditionally remembered as an extreme example of unthinking, reactionary conservatism in an era of intense partisanship and bitter sectional conflict. This revisionist account reinterprets Harper’s political philosophy in light of his personal struggle with the moral dilemma of slavery.
Jatakastava or “Praise of the Buddha’s Former Births”
Regular price $90.00 Save $-90.00
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Search for a New Voltaire
Regular price $90.00 Save $-90.00
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Some Assumptions of Aristotle
Regular price $90.00 Save $-90.00
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
New Fragment of Xenocrates and its Implications
Regular price $90.00 Save $-90.00
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Moses Maimonides’ Two Treatises on the Regimen of Health
Regular price $90.00 Save $-90.00
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Maistre Nicole Oresme
Regular price $90.00 Save $-90.00
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Maurus of Salerno
Regular price $90.00 Save $-90.00
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.
Philosophical Lectures by Samuel Williams, LL.D., on the Constitution, Duty, and Religion of Man
Regular price $90.00 Save $-90.00
This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Gaetano Filangieri and His Science of Legislation
Regular price $90.00 Save $-90.00
This is a print on demand edition of a hard-to-find journal.
Natural Philosophy of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
Regular price $60.00 Save $-60.00
Chu Hsi (1130-1200) exerted a lasting influence on the thought and life of the Chinese in subsequent cent. The core of his synthesis was moral and social philosophy, but it also included knowledge about the natural world. His doctrine of ke-wu (invest. of things) made him mindful of the specialized knowledged in such “scientific” traditions as astronomy, harmonics, med., etc. This study of Chu Hsi’s thought gives a systematic account of the basic concepts of his natural philosophy. Also discusses Chu Hsi’s actual knowledge about the natural world. And examines the relation between Chu Hsi and Chinese “scientific” traditions and compares his natural knowledge with that of the Western scientific tradition.
Sophie de Grouchy Letters on Sympathy (1798)
Regular price $45.00 Save $-45.00
Sophie de Grouchy, marquise de Condorcet, was a woman of the French Enlightenment who was a member of the Girondin revolutionary faction, ran an influential salon, and translated Adam Smith and Thomas Paine. Her “Lettres sur la sympathie” is a work on moral philosophy, a theory of social progress, and a feminist reassessment of liberal philosophy and social contract theory. Editor Brown brings to light an important philosophical text from the end of the 18th cent. which will be valuable to scholars of the French Enlightenment, Adam Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment, women’s studies, and the history of women in philosophy. “Succeeds in restoring Sophie de Grouchy’s text to its rightful place in the history of philosophy and ideas.” Illus.
Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment
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As the essays in this collection make plain, Isaiah Berlin invented neither the term "Counter-Enlightenment" nor the concept. However, more than any other figure since the eighteenth century, Berlin appropriated the term, made it the heart of his own political thought, and imbued his interpretations of particular thinkers with its meanings and significance. His diverse treatment of writers at the margins of the Enlightenment, who themselves reflected upon what they took to be its central currents, were at once historical and philosophical. Berlin sought to show that our patterns of culture, manufactured by ourselves, must be explained differently from the ways in which we seek to fathom laws of nature.
Paradoxes of Free Will
Regular price $45.00 Save $-45.00
Driving human reason too far in the analysis of deep problems often leads to irresolvable inconsistencies and contradictions. In this 2002 J.F. Lewis Award-winning monograph, Gunther Stent traces the origins and development of the paradoxes of free will in this well-crafted introduction to philosophical debates regarding freedom of will. Free will poses one of the oldest and most vexatious philosophical problems, dating back to the beginnings of moral philosophy in ancient Greece. Pure theoretical reason implies that our actions are determined, while practical theoretical reason tells us that our will is free. Stent examines the arguments of moral responsibility versus determinism, from Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle to Immanuel Kant, Niels Bohr, and Max Planck.
