Medieval Thought

John Duns Scotus (1265/6-1308) was (along with Aquinas and Ockham) one of the three principal figures in medieval philosophy and theology, with an influence on modern thought arguably greater than that of Aquinas. The essays in this volume systematically survey the full range of Scotus's thought. Th... More

Medieval Philosophy is devoted to the period known as the Middle Ages. It considers the rich traditions of Arab, Jewish and Latin philosophy, which began to flourish in the ninth century and continued, in the Latin West, until the early seventeenth century. The volume begins with Boethius, the late ... More

"Introduction to Medieval Philosophy "combines and updates the scholarship of the two highly successful volumes "Early Medieval Philosophy "(1983) and "Late Medieval Philosoph"y (1986) in a single, reliable, and comprehensive text on the history of medieval philosophy. John Marenbon discusses the ma... More

A trenchant analysis of Spinoza's major treatises within the context of his contemporary political, religious, and ideological life. With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. I... More

"This is by far the best book we have on Aquinas's philosophy as a whole, and it will undoubtedly become a standard point of reference for anyone interested in his work" Robert Pasnau, Mind "This book is an astounding achievement. It will not be superseded for decades. It will surely remain on the b... More

Although best known for his views about universals and his dramatic love affair with Heloise, Peter Abelard (1079-1142) also made important contributions in metaphysics, logic, philosophy of language, mind and cognition, philosophical theology, ethics, and literature. The essays in this volume surve... More

This comprehensive survey is the only text available to give short and accessible summaries of the life and achievements of over 200 hundred philosophers and theologians from the strict Shi'i school of Islam.This comprehensive survey is the only text available to give short and accessible summaries ... More

The first major study for over forty years of the twelfth-century philosopher and humanist, theologian and courtier, diplomat and political thinker, whose advice to princes, the Policraticus became a classic of medieval literature.The first major study for over forty years of the twelfth-century phi... More

A renowned poet, philosopher, and traveler of the 11th century, Nasir Khusraw was also a major thinker and author of the Iranian lands. Writing exclusively in Persian, his writings have been preserved through the centuries by the Ismaili communities of the upper Oxus and Badakhshan, now situated in ... More

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Although strongly influenced by Greek thought, Islamic philosophers also developed an original philosophical culture of their own which flourished from the ninth through the fourteenth century. This volume offers new translations of philosophical writings by Farabi, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Ghazali, Ibn... More

Syed Alam Khundmiri (1922-83) was an important intellectual figure of his times, a true humanist with rare philosophical insights ranging over a wide field. The volume brings together Khundmiri’s seminal essays which set out his dominant concerns: Marxism, with its indifference to questions of... More

L. Nathan Oaklander is one of the leading philosophers of time defending the tenseless or B-Theory of time. He has remained at the forefront of this field since the early 1980s and today he is arguably one of the most formidable opponents of the tensed or A-theory of time. Much of the direction of t... More

The Praeambula Fidei ("preambles of faith") are regarded by Thomas Aquinas as the culmination of philosophy: natural theology, the highest knowledge of God that is possible on philosophical grounds alone. The natural home for such considerations is the Metaphysics of Aristotle and Thomas's commentar... More

The Consolation of Philosophy is perhaps unique in the nature and extent of its influence on Western thinking.An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius (c. A D 475-525) was also an exceptional Greek scholar and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell ... More

The Franciscan William of Ockham was an English medieval philosopher, theologian, and political theorist. Ockham is important not only in the history of philosophy and theology, but also in the development of early modern science and of modern notions of property rights and church-state relations. T... More