History of Western Philosophy

Aristotle's Quarrel with Socrates is an account of the role friendship plays in ancient political thought. Examining Platonic dialogues and Aristot...

It's frequently said that we live in a post-truth age. That obviously can't be true, but it does name a real problem on our hands. Getting things r...

Bound for Beatitude is about St. Thomas Aquinass theology of beatitude and the journey thereto. Consequently, the works topic is the meaning and pu...

Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living. They were also arenas for debating pressing ph...

This book sets out a thematic presentation of human action, especially as it relates to morality, in the three most significant figures in Medieval...

An important milestone of 20th Century philosophy was the rise of personalism. After the crimes and atrocities against millions of human beings in ...

Since the first decade of the 14th Century, Thomas Aquinas's disciples have struggled to explain and defend his doctrine of analogy. Analogy after ...

The Metaphysical Foundations of Love: Aquinas on Participation, Unity, and Union offers a systematic treatment of St. Thomas Aquinas's account of t...

Is contemporary continental philosophy making a break with Kant? The structures of knowledge, taken for granted since Kants Critique of Pure Reason...

What is the measure of ethics? What is the measure of justice? And how do we come to measure the immeasurability of these questions? Thinking the P...

Étienne Gilson (1884-1978) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy, as well as a scholar of medieval philosophy. In 1946 he attained t...

Eternal Life and Human Happiness in Heaven treats four apparent problems concerning eternal life in order to clarify our thinking about perfect hum...

There are two great traditions of natural-kinds realism: the modern, instituted by Mill and elaborated by Venn, Peirce, Kripke, Putnam, Boyd, and o...

Thomas Aquinas and His Predecessors takes us on a voyage through the history of philosophical thought as present in the works of Thomas Aquinas. It...

Navigating the seemingly competing claims of human reason and divine revelation to truth is without a doubt one of the central problems of medieval...

In light of current interest in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, rediscovery of the work of John Capreolus (1380-1444) is particularly important....

The Wayfarers End follows the human persons journey to union with God in the theologies of Saint Bonaventure and Saint Thomas Aquinas. It argues th...

This work is the first English translation of Scotuss commentary on Aristotles Quaestiones super Praedicamenta. Although there are numerous Latin c...

Aquinas on Emotion's Participation in Reason aims to present Aquinas's answer to the perennial and now popular question: In what way can the emotio...