ย Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308) is one of a handful of figures in the history of philosophy whose significance is truly difficult to overestimate. Despite ...
Continue Reading โIn On Being and Cognition Scotus addresses fundamental issues concerning the limits of human knowledge and the nature of cognition by developing his doctrine of ...
Continue Reading โMore than any other single thinker, William of Ockham (c.1285โ1347) is responsible for the widely held modern assumption that religious and secular-political institutions should normally ...
Continue Reading โย 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 โย 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 โย 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 โย 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 โย 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 โย ย 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 โย ย Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and ...
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