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  • Summa Contra Gentiles

    Book 3: Providence, Part I

    by St. Thomas Aquinas ...
    Translated by Vernon J. Bourke ...
    Book Three, Part 1 of the Summa Contra Gentiles series is the first part of a treatise on the hierarchy of creation, the divine providence over all things, and man’s relation to God.The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Summa Contra Gentiles

    Book 3: Providence, Part II

    by St. Thomas Aquinas ...
    Translated by Vernon J. Bourke ...
    Book Three, Part 2 of the Summa Contra Gentiles series is the second part of a treatise on the hierarchy of creation, the divine providence over all things, and man's relation to God.The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe

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  • The Complaint of Nature

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  • Summa Contra Gentiles, 4

    Book Four: Salvation

    by St. Thomas Aquinas ...
    Translated by Charles J. O'Neil ...
    Book Four of the Summa Contra Gentiles examines what God has revealed through scripture, specifically the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the end of the world.The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought ... Read more

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  • Utopia: On The Best State Of A Republic And On The New Island Of Utopia

    On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia

    by Sir Thomas More ...
    Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia in 1516 in Latin. His Utopia is a fictional island, whose society, religion and politics he explores. Critics do not believe that the island depicted More's idea of the perfect society, but rather that he hoped to throw the politics of his own time into a new light by contrasting them with his imagined island society. The work references Plato's Republic. ... Read more

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  • The Consolation of Philosophy

    by Anicius Boethius ...
    Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. THE CONSOLATION was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution. It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' ... Read more

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  • The Garments of Court and Palace

    Machiavelli and the World That He Made

    by Philip Bobbitt ...
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  • Medieval Philosophy

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 2

    by Anthony Kenny ...
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  • Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought

    From Gratian to Aquinas

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    The history of moral dilemma theory often ignores the medieval period, overlooking the sophisticated theorizing by several thinkers who debated the existence of moral dilemmas from 1150 to 1450. In this book Michael V. Dougherty offers a rich and fascinating overview of the debates which were pursued by medieval philosophers, theologians and canon lawyers, illustrating his discussion with a ... Read more

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