History of Western philosophy books

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Christian Platonism: A History

Christian Platonism: A History

Author: Alexander J. B. Hampton (University of Toronto) ,  John Peter Kenney (Saint Michael's College, Vermont)
ISBN: 9781108741408
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Anyone wishing to understand Christianity deeply must consider the central, formative role of Platonism. It has...  Read More >>

The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History

The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History

Author: Francesco Orsi (University of Tartu, Estonia)
ISBN: 9781032120171
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This is the first book to trace the doctrine of the guise of the good throughout the history of Western philosophy....  Read More >>

The Heart of Therapy: Developing Compassion, Understanding and Boundaries

The Heart of Therapy: Developing Compassion, Understanding...

Author: Laura Barnett
ISBN: 9781032428253
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This thoughtful and heartfelt book develops two main themes: the healing power of a compassionate understanding...  Read More >>

The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates

The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates

Author: Xenophon ,  Edward Bysshe
ISBN: 9798889421955
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This translation of Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates was first published in 1712, and is here printed from the...  Read More >>

Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand Tour

Rome as a Guide to the Good Life: A Philosophical Grand...

Author: Scott Samuelson
ISBN: 9780226826264
Format: Hardback
$163.95

A unique, portable guidebook that sketches Rome’s great philosophical tradition while also providing an engaging...  Read More >>

Theology of the Manifest: Christianity without Metaphysics

Theology of the Manifest: Christianity without Metaphysics...

Author: Steven Nemes
ISBN: 9781978715486
Format: Hardback
$163.00

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Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early Academy

Traditional and Cosmic Gods in Later Plato and the Early...

Author: Vilius Bartninkas (Vilniaus Universitetas, Lithuania)
ISBN: 9781009322591
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Sheds new light on Plato's cosmology in relation to Greek religion by examining the contested distinction between...  Read More >>

Normativity, Lifeworld, and Science in Sellars’ Synoptic Vision

Normativity, Lifeworld, and Science in Sellars’ Synoptic...

Author: Dionysis Christias
ISBN: 9783031270253
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book brings together the work of Wilfrid Sellars with work in 20th century phenomenology and 21st century speculative...  Read More >>

A Worthwhile Life: How to Find Meaning, Build Connection, and Cultivate Purpose

A Worthwhile Life: How to Find Meaning, Build Connection,...

Author: Michael Westover
ISBN: 9798986793405
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Coasting through a life filled with distractions? It's time to live with value, purpose, and meaning.  Read More >>

The Tragedy of Reason: Toward a Platonic Conception of Logos

The Tragedy of Reason: Toward a Platonic Conception...

Author: David Roochnik
ISBN: 9780367713003
Format: Paperback
$60.99

The classical conception of reason (or logos) has been repeatedly attacked in the modern era. First published in...  Read More >>

Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry on Language, Cognition, and Experience

Medieval Allegory as Epistemology: Dream-Vision Poetry...

Author: Marco Nievergelt (Forward College)
ISBN: 9780192849212
Format: Hardback
$283.00

This volume shows how late medieval dream-poetry explored problems arising from the reception of Aristotle's philosophical...  Read More >>

Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance

Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Nesca A. Robb
ISBN: 9780367722722
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Originally published in 1935, the aim of this title is first to give a clear outline of Florentine Neoplatonism,...  Read More >>

Action, Meaning, and Argument in Eric Weil's Logic of Philosophy: A Development of Pragmatist, Expressivist, and Inferentialist Themes

Action, Meaning, and Argument in Eric Weil's Logic of...

Author: Sequoya Yiaueki
ISBN: 9783031240812
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This volume investigates Eric Weil’s innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical...  Read More >>

Horizons of Phenomenology: Essays on the State of the Field and Its Applications

Horizons of Phenomenology: Essays on the State of the...

Author: Jeff Yoshimi ,  Philip Walsh
ISBN: 9783031260766
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This is an open access book which explores phenomenology as both an exceptionally diverse movement in philosophy...  Read More >>

Platonism: A Concise History from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity

Platonism: A Concise History from the Early Academy...

Author: Mauro Bonazzi (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) ,  David Sedley (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009253420
Format: Hardback
$77.63

This is the first comprehensive account of Platonism in antiquity, from the foundation of Plato's Academy in the...  Read More >>

The Social Institutions Through the Contrasting Visions of Plato and Aristotle

The Social Institutions Through the Contrasting Visions...

Author: Anthony Walsh
ISBN: 9781804411872
Format: Hardback
$348.35

The book is a scholarly work on two foundational philosophers, but will also serve as a supplementary text for a...  Read More >>

Horizons of Phenomenology: Essays on the State of the Field and Its Applications

Horizons of Phenomenology: Essays on the State of the...

Author: Jeff Yoshimi ,  Philip Walsh
ISBN: 9783031260735
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This is an open access book which explores phenomenology as both an exceptionally diverse movement in philosophy...  Read More >>

Rationalism: A Collection of Writings on Rationalism

Rationalism: A Collection of Writings on Rationalism...

Author: Nathan Coppedge
ISBN: 9798394272233
Format: Paperback
$53.43

During the years 2017 to 2019 or so, Nathan Coppedge the philosopher, artist, inventor, and poet composed some of...  Read More >>

Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916: A Companion

Edith Stein's Life in a Jewish Family, 1891–1916: A...

Author: Joyce Avrech Berkman
ISBN: 9781666912494
Format: Hardback
$169.00

Joyce Avrech Berkman interprets Edith Stein’s autobiography as time and space bound, yet arrestingly transgressive....  Read More >>

How to Think Like a Philosopher: Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking

How to Think Like a Philosopher: Twelve Key Principles...

Author: Julian Baggini
ISBN: 9780226826646
Format: Hardback
$63.36

An invitation to the habits of good thinking from philosopher Julian Baggini. By now, it should be clear: in the...  Read More >>

THEOSOPHY - An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos

THEOSOPHY - An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes...

Author: Rudolf Steiner
ISBN: 9781805479260
Format: Paperback
$43.53

"Theosophy is a key work for gaining a solid footing in spiritual reality as described by Rudolf Steiner. It is...  Read More >>

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