Essays on Aristotle's De Anima

Essays on Aristotle's De Anima
Author: Martha Craven Nussbaum
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1995
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 019823600X

Aristotle's philosophy of mind has recently attracted renewed attention and respect from philosophers. This volume brings together outstanding new essays on De Anima by a distinguished international group of contributors including, in this paperback efdition, a new essay by Myles Burnyeat. Theessays form a running commentary on the work, covering such topics as the relation between body and soul, sense-perception, imagination, memory, desire, and thought. the authors, writing with philosophical subtlety and wide-ranging scholarship, present the philosophical substance of Aristotle'sviews to the modern reader. they locate their interpretations firmly within the context of Aristotle's thought as a whole.

An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies

An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé De Las Casas
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Total Pages: 189
Release: 2003-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1603844945

Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the Brevísima Relación catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king’s colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it.

The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy

The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy
Author: C. B. Schmitt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 986
Release: 1988
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521397483

This 1988 Companion offers an account of philosophical thought from the middle of the fourteenth century to the emergence of modern philosophy.

The Nature of Desire

The Nature of Desire
Author: Julien A. Deonna
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2017
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199370966

Desires are central to our lives, yet we rarely understand them. What are they? And are they motivational or evaluative states? Should philosophy adopt an alternative picture entirely? Answering these questions is vital to a number of issues in philosophy of mind and ethics. This volume comprehensively explores this neglected, albeit crucial, dimension of the mind.

Another Face of Empire

Another Face of Empire
Author: Daniel Castro
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780822339397

Separating historical reality from myth, this book provides a nuanced, revisionist assessment of the friar's career, writings, and political activities.

The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy

The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy
Author: James Hankins
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2007-10-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1139827480

The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy, published in 2007, provides an introduction to a complex period of change in the subject matter and practice of philosophy. The philosophy of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries is often seen as transitional between the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages and modern philosophy, but the essays collected here, by a distinguished international team of contributors, call these assumptions into question, emphasizing both the continuity with scholastic philosophy and the role of Renaissance philosophy in the emergence of modernity. They explore the ways in which the science, religion and politics of the period reflect and are reflected in its philosophical life, and they emphasize the dynamism and pluralism of a period which saw both new perspectives and enduring contributions to the history of philosophy. This will be an invaluable guide for students of philosophy, intellectual historians, and all who are interested in Renaissance thought.

Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy

Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy
Author: Jill Kraye
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134664478

This volume examines the distinctive and important role played by humanism in the development of early modern philosophy. Focusing on individual authors as well as intellectual trends, this collection of essays aims to portray the humanist movement as an essential part of the philosophy of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries.