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Presents a collection of papers that illustrate the richness of Edmund Husserl's own work and the tradition he began.

Brings together contributions from various expert scholars to explore the pluralism that exists within medieval reflection on natural law. The book is the first to study the relation between the natural law theories of these various traditions of medieval philosophy: Jewish, Islamic, Byzantine, and Latin.

Examines and comments on the meaning of ""conjecture"" in Nicholas of Cusa. The Art of Conjecture: Nicholas of Cusa on Knowledge explores what Nicholas meant by conjecture and its import as demonstrated in his treatises and sermons.

Dedicated to the metaphysical thought of Thomas Aquinas. After an introduction, this volume of collected essays begins with John Wippel's interpretation of the discovery of the subject of metaphysics by a special kind of judgment (""separation""). In subsequent chapters, Wippel turns to the relationship between faith and reason.

Presents a richer alternative to the contemporary cult of beauty and appearance on the one hand, and to the concomitant decline of real beauty on the other hand. In addition to highlighting the centrality of beauty in the Aristotelian account of moral virtue, this volume will provide the metaphysical and theological grounding for beauty.

Includes a series of essays grouped under three headings: Being, Man, and God. This volume aims to bring disparate philosophical traditions into conversation, such as classical Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics, the modern critical rationalism of Kant, the idealist synthesis of Hegel, and the postmodern deconstructionism of Derrida and Foucault.

Presents readings of six of the theoretical works of Cusa. It locates him in the Christian Neoplatonic tradition, demonstrating how he worked on his own synthesis of that tradition by fashioning a conjectural view of main categories of Christian thought: God, the universe, Jesus and human beings.

Comprises ten essays that mediate between Scholastic concerns and contemporary philosophical issues, and address key issues - from historical as well as substantive standpoint. The essays are written in the conviction that there is much to be learned from the schoolmen even when one fails to agree with their substantive doctrinal positions.

In contemporary philosophy the status, indeed the very viability of metaphysics is a much contested issue. The reflections offered here explore diverse aspects of this contested status and offer a defense of metaphysics.

Argues that there is a single, substantial line of development that can be traced from the work of Leibniz through Kant and Royce to Heidegger. Charles Sherover traces a movement from deep within the roots of German idealism through Royce's insights into American pragmatism to the ethical ramifications of Heidegger's existential phenomenology.

Written by acknowledged experts in their fields, the essays in this collection provide a unique overview of philosophical developments in the twentieth century. The broad range of topics considered makes the book an invaluable reference work.

The terms "freedom" and "person" carry such overwhelming force in the modern world that the critical distance required for grasping what is at stake in using them is extremely hard to gain. This collection seeks to contribute toward finding that distance by making the tradition of thought more a living reality and not an object of arid analyses.

Addresses the subject of categories: What are they? How are they used in speaking and thinking? What role do they play in our moral deliberations? Why are there different sorts of categories? And are categories independent of our thinking and speaking, giving objective form to the world we aim to think and speak about?

Provides the first extensive assessment of the impact of Aristotelianism on the history of philosophy from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. Specific attention is given to the role of the five intellectual virtues set forth by Aristotle in book VI of the Nicomachean Ethics - art, prudence, science, wisdom, and intellect.

Intended for those interested in Kant's contribution to philosophy, this volume provides an overview of Kant's arguments concerning central issues in metaphysics and ethics. Arthur Melnick argues that the key to all of Kant's arguments is his constructivist theory of space and time.

Offers a broad study of the basic and universal issues in ethics and politics, the issues of what the human good is and how to attain it and avoid its opposite. These questions have long been debated and are no less debated today. However, according Peter Phillips Simpson they have been debated too narrowly.

CUA Press proudly announces the reissue of 32 titles from this internationally acclaimed series. These long-unavailable titles, which cover all aspects of philosophy, will be published in paperback and ebook formats. Authors include renowned philosophers such as Ralph McInerny, Robert Sokolowski, and John Wippel.

The character of this work is perhaps sufficently indicated by its title. However it must be noted that the term ""philosophy"" is not used so strictly as to exclude material from other disciplines connected with philosophy or helpful to it and to an understanding of its history.

The character of this work is perhaps sufficiently indicated by its title. However it must be noted that the term ""philosophy"" is not used so strictly as to exclude material from other disciplines connected with philosophy or helpful to it and to an understanding of its history.

This volume was a cooperative effort of European, American and Canadian scholars which was published to commemorate the occasion of the seventh centennial of the bith of John Duns Scotus.

Among the many thinkers discussed in this volume are Sartre, Frankl, Hartshorne, Ortega, Kant, Leibniz, Descartes, John of St. Thomas, Anselm, Bonavanture, Augustine, Plotinus and Aristotle.

A collection of articles that looks at the work of Baruch Spinoza through his metaphysics, his philosophy of politics and religion, and alternative approaches to Spinoza.

Presents a collection of works by international scholars on Aristotle, Plato, Duns Scotus, Plotinus and Moritz Schlick.

The essays contained in this volume illustrate the work of Fr. James A. Weisheipl, whose writing and teaching have resulted in important additions to our understanding of nature and motion.

Presents studies that give some idea of the variety of philosophical perspectives which Aristotle held, and that provide analysis needed in order to reach a better understanding of a difficult thinker.

This volume examines the two basic approaches to the philosophy of religion in the history of western thought. One places primary emphasis on reason and the other places that emphasis on experience.

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason was a shock for which the intellectual world was in no way prepared. This volume includes essays by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Henry Allison, Jose Benardete, Arthur Melnick and Daniel Dahlstrom, most of which originated as lectures for the Colloquium at the Catholic University of America.

This collection of papers is devoted to the significance of particular formal and literary aspects of the Platonic dialogues.

A collection of papers to mark the 350th anniversary of the publication of Galileo's Dialogue.

The philosophy of nature is a field of inquiry which had been a casualty of the increasing and dominant acceptance from the early 19th century of the conception of physics as a mechanics.