The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology contains forty new translations of important works on moral and political philosophy written during the Renaissance and hitherto unavailable in English. The works, originally written in Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and Greek, cover such topics as concepts of man; Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, and Epicurean ethics; scholastic political philosophy; theories of princely and republican government in Italy; and northern European political thought.
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The Renaissance, known primarily for the art and literature that it produced, was also a period in which philosophical thought flourished. This two-volume anthology contains forty new translations of important works on moral and political philosophy written during the Renaissance and hitherto unavailable in English. The works, originally written in Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, and Greek, cover such topics as: concepts of man; Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, and Epicurean ethics; scholastic political philosophy; theories of princely and republican government in Italy; and northern European political thought.
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Anselm Turmeda (c. 1352-c. 1423) was an extraordinary figure who straddled the worlds of Christianity and Islam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lord donkey, contemplative happiness, third essence, active happiness, supernatural beatitude, intellective soul, infinite simplicity, dicta memorabilia, greater nobility, ancient theologians, vita beata, separate substances Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nicomachean Ethics, Friar Anselm, Diogenes Laertius, Holy Spirit, Thomas Aquinas, Further Reading, Tusculan Disputations, Translator's Notes, Lives of the Philosophers, Marsilio Ficino, Sextus Empiricus, Holy Scriptures, Platonic Theology, Francisco de Quevedo, New York, Patrologia Latina, Intelligible World, Clement of Alexandria, Dionysius the Areopagite, Jesus Christ, Justus Lipsius, Aulus Gellius, Francesco Filelfo, Poggio Bracciolini, World Soul New!
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Anselm Turmeda (c. 1352-c. 1423) was an extraordinary figure who straddled the worlds of Christianity and Islam. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
lord donkey, contemplative happiness, third essence, active happiness, supernatural beatitude, intellective soul, infinite simplicity, dicta memorabilia, greater nobility, ancient theologians, vita beata, separate substances Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Nicomachean Ethics, Friar Anselm, Diogenes Laertius, Holy Spirit, Thomas Aquinas, Further Reading, Tusculan Disputations, Translator's Notes, Lives of the Philosophers, Marsilio Ficino, Sextus Empiricus, Holy Scriptures, Platonic Theology, Francisco de Quevedo, New York, Patrologia Latina, Intelligible World, Clement of Alexandria, Dionysius the Areopagite, Jesus Christ, Justus Lipsius, Aulus Gellius, Francesco Filelfo, Poggio Bracciolini, World Soul New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 32 pages
- Tusculan disputations (Classical texts) by Marcus Tullius Cicero on 11 pages
- Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts (Volume 2) by Jill Kraye on 5 pages
- The Divine Names by Dionysius on 4 pages
- Noctes atticae by Aulus Gellius on page 154, page 263, and page 265
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- Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy (London Studies in the History of Philosophy) by Jill Kraye in Front Matter, and page 124
- Humanism, Machinery, and Renaissance Literature by Jessica Wolfe in Back Matter
- The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought (Ideas in Context) by Eric Nelson in Back Matter
- Hellenistic and Early Modern Philosophy by Jon Miller in Back Matter
- Encyclopedia of Ethics: Second Edition: Volume II: H-O by Lawrence C. Becker on page 88
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