William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism, ...
Continue Reading → This volume contains selections of Ockham’s philosophical writings which give a balanced introductory view of his work in logic, metaphysics, and ethics. This edition ...
Continue Reading → Boethius composed De Consolation Philosophiae in the sixth century A.D. while awaiting death by torture, condemned on a charge of plotting against Gothic rule, ...
Continue Reading → An appropriate motto for Augustine’s great work On the Trinity is ‘faith in search of understanding’. In this treatise Augustine offers a part-theological, part-philosophical ...
Continue Reading → The most comprehensive compilation of the works of Abelard and Heloise ever presented in a single volume in English, The Letters and Other Writings ...
Continue Reading →  The Philippics are a collection of 14 speeches delivered by Cicero against the character of Marc Antony. The speeches were given in front ...
Continue Reading →  Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and ...
Continue Reading →Cicero’s On the Commonwealth and On the Laws are his most important works of political philosophy. The present volume offers a scholarly reconstruction of the ...
Continue Reading →Epicurus’ Epistle to Menoeceus is a summary of the ethical teachings of Epicurean philosophy written in the epistolary literary style, and addressed to a student. ...
Continue Reading →The Theaetetus is one of the middle to later dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Plato was Socrates’ student and Aristotle’s teacher. As in ...
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