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Presents the collected essays of Prof. Henry B. Veatch, distinguished philosopher and teacher. They examine a variety of topics, including the works of Quine, Rorty, Gewirth, and Finnis as well as a variety of topics such as ethical egoism, libertarianism, the works of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brings together articles that influenced the scholarly work of Ralph McInerny.

A collection of essays on the medieval period in philosophy.

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

A collection of essasys on the philosophy of Moses Maimonides.

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.

Brings together a lifetime of work on the problems presented by the notion of a Christian philosophy, debates whether a Christian philosophy is possible, and outlines the steps for its development.

The present volume is a collection of systematic and historical studies addressing the terms of Aristotelian inference.

The thirteen essays in this collection are marked by a diversity of philosophical styles and perspectives on art. While some authors focus on specific forms of art, others are more concerned with the interpretation given to art by past and contemporary philosophers and artists. Nothing less than the outline of a systematic account of the arts is ventured.

Presents new work in history and historiography to the increasingly broad audience for studies of the history and philosophy of science. These essays are linked by a concern to understand the context of early modern science in its own context.

Natural theology, which suffered significantly in the eighteenth century, appeared to be a terminal patient in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1960s however philosophers and theologians began to give renewed attention to the kinds of issues that natural theology was intended to address. This collection of essays provides a sample of the current status of natural theology among scholars.

Provides commentary on prominent philosophers on important philosophical themes. "These unusual and exquisite essays focus on a problem or a text with extraordinary acuity".

Consisting of nine studies, this volume presents a series of specific insights on Aristotle's influence from Plotinus through Arabic thought.

The ten essays in this collection approach the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas not merely as an object of scholarly interest but also as a framework for addressing perennial philosophical questions, even as they are raised and debated in our own times.

Presents 15 studies occasioned by the 500th anniversary of the European discovery of America. It covers both the initial encounters between the Europeans and native Americans and the golden age of Hispanic philosophy that followed the discovery - specifically between 1500 and 1650.

Offers a comprehensive philosophical study of Confucian ethics - its basic insights and its relevance to contemporary Western moral philosophy. Writer and philosopher A.S. Cua presents fourteen essays which deal with various problems arising in the philosophical explication of the nature of Chinese ethical thought.

The essays in this volume pose the question common usage has obscured: was "the Enlightenment" truly enlightened or enlightening? Scholarly investigation has sometimes avoided the question by confining itself to historical particulars of 18th-century Europe. Yet the most visible proponents of the Enlightenment, the "philosophers", insisted that their project originated a century earlier, in the writings of the first self-proclaimed modern "philosophers". This volume seeks philosophical clarity of modernity's enlightenment by beginning with Bacon, Descartes and Hobbes. Consideration of Pascal, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Roussea, Lessing and Kant - all philosophical critics, or reformers, of the Enlightenment - furthers the study of its legacy by displaying its diversity. Finally, the book indicates the Enlightenment's vitality by outlining ways it continues to hold philosophical sway in this century. The contributors discuss several themes pertaining to the ambition of Enlightenment reason: justice, tradition and authority; the mastery of nature; metaphysics and scientific method; enlightened and unenlightened "dogmatism"; the utilitarian revision of the common good and the commonly true; Christianity and the limits of enlightened theology; "theodicy"; aesthetics and political rhetoric; myth, history and human freedom.

The story of the emergence of German Idealism has never been fully told. In this volume, an international group of leading scholars shows how the various aspirations at work in the emergence of German Idealism - moral, religious, aesthetic, political, and epistemological - can be understood as both consummating and overcoming Kant's critical philosophy.

The contributions to this volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Heidegger research, offer close readings of Heidegger's texts and provide sound orientation in the field of contemporary Heidegger research. They show how the different trajectories of Heidegger's thought all converge at one point: the question of Being.