Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion
Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion

Author: Thomas Hibbs

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2007-05-31

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0253116767

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In Aquinas, Ethics, and Philosophy of Religion, Thomas Hibbs recovers the notion of practice to develop a more descriptive account of human action and knowing, grounded in the venerable vocabulary of virtue and vice. Drawing on Aquinas, who believed that all good works originate from virtue, Hibbs postulates how epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and theology combine into a set of contemporary philosophical practices that remain open to metaphysics. Hibbs brings Aquinas into conversation with analytic and Continental philosophy and suggests how a more nuanced appreciation of his thought enriches contemporary debates. This book offers readers a new appreciation of Aquinas and articulates a metaphysics integrally related to ethical practice.

Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola
Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola

Author: Girolamo Savonarola

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 0300129041

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Five hundred years after his death at the stake, Girolamo Savonarola remains one of the most fascinating figures of the Italian Renaissance. This wide-ranging collection, with an introduction by historian Alison Brown, includes translations of his sermons and treatises on pastoral ministry, prophecy, politics, and moral reform, as well as the correspondence with Alexander VI that led to Savonarola’s silencing and excommunication. Also included are first-hand accounts of religio-civic festivities instigated by Savonarola and of his last moments. This collection demonstrates the remarkable extent of Savonarola’s contributions to the religious, political, and aesthetic debates of the late fifteenth century.

De Institutione Feminae Christianae
De Institutione Feminae Christianae

Author: Juan Luis Vives

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9789004106598

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Vives' tract on the eduction of women, De Institutione Feminae Christianae (1524, revised 1538) became a model for conduct books in various Protestant traditions and as such has always been of interest to historians of education. However, the treatise also made a very important contribution to the querelle des femmes of its time and has consequently generated much interest among modern historians of women and gender. It consists of 3 books, one for each stage of woman's life - maidenhood, marriage and widowhood. The only English translation of the text on offer till now was the inaccurate and free version of Richard Hyrde (a friend of Thomas More), published early in the 10th century by Foster Watson, but now unavailable. This edition offers a new Latin text with a double apparatus and a facing-page English translation with notes, with an introduction to the edition and the text. Volume I (1996) contains Book I, volume 2 covers Books II-III.

Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony
Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony

Author: Leo Spitzer

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9781621387619

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This uniquely fascinating volume is not merely a learned treatise in historical semantics; it is itself a stupendous display of world harmony as a creed-a vivid demonstration that "all is all."