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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Jean Gerson (1363-1429) was one of Europe's most influential churchmen of the early fifteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Great Council, Nicomachean Ethics, Thomas Aquinas, Council of Eighty, Diogenes Laertius, Middle Ages, Further Reading, Jean Gerson, Lives of the Philosophers, Translator's Notes, Valerius Maximus, Bartolomeo Scala, George of Trebizond, Tommaso Campanella, Patrologia Latina, William of Ockham, History of Rome, Poggio Bracciolini, Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar, Maggior Consiglio, New York, Pier Paolo Vergerio, Francesco Guicciardini, Papal Government New!
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Jean Gerson (1363-1429) was one of Europe's most influential churchmen of the early fifteenth century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
permanent gonfalonier, cose dello stato, vivere populare, iuris canonici, dicta memorabilia, civil dominion, natural dominion, popular regime, nobility based, supreme pontiff, regimine principum, del governo Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Council, Nicomachean Ethics, Thomas Aquinas, Council of Eighty, Diogenes Laertius, Middle Ages, Further Reading, Jean Gerson, Lives of the Philosophers, Translator's Notes, Valerius Maximus, Bartolomeo Scala, George of Trebizond, Tommaso Campanella, Patrologia Latina, William of Ockham, History of Rome, Poggio Bracciolini, Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar, Maggior Consiglio, New York, Pier Paolo Vergerio, Francesco Guicciardini, Papal Government New!
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- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 17 pages
- The History Of Rome Vol V by Livy on 8 pages
- Tusculan disputations (Classical texts) by Marcus Tullius Cicero on 8 pages
- Bartolomeo Scala: Humanistic and Political Writings (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) by Alison Brown on 6 pages
- History of Florence by MacHiavelli on 5 pages
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- Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts: Moral and Political Philosophy by Jill Kraye on 5 pages
- Humanism and Early Modern Philosophy (London Studies in the History of Philosophy) by Jill Kraye on 4 pages
- A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance by Janet Coleman on page 227, page 231, and Back Matter
- A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance by Janet Coleman on page 231, page 235, and Back Matter
- The Impact of Aristotelianism on Modern Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy) by Riccardo Pozzo in Back Matter
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