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Los Angeles; (1945): Philosophical Research Society. First Edition. Octavo. Subscriber's edition signed by the author. 270 pages. Portrait illustrations by K. Alexander. Hall's study of Neoplatonism and Plato's importance along with Pythagoras of Samos, and Diogenes, including Orpheuss, Socrates, Aristotle, Ammonius, Saccus, Plotinus, Proclus and St. Augustine. Bound in maroon cloth,spine lettered and decorated in gilt, previous owner's gift… Ler mais sobre este item

Los Angeles: The Philosophical Research Society, 1975. Folio. Signed twice by the author. Once on the limitation page and once on the dedication page. ccxlv, 245 pages, 48 pages of plates. This is the Golden Anniversary Edition which was first issued in a 1928. Elephant folio edition limited to 850 copies and measuring over 45 inches which survives mostly… Ler mais sobre este item

Portland, OR. (1995): North Pacific Publishers/Tucek and Tucek. First Edition. Octavo. First printing. ix, 374 pages. Bibliographic references (pages 350-364), index. Although a very focused and well-written work, this work will challenge those who are concerned not only with theoretical physics but also the issues of space/time along with their often neglected relationship to disciplines in the humanities. Whether… Ler mais sobre este item

London; (1963): Routledge & Kegan Paul. Octavo. 2nd impression with a few corrections. 166 pages, index. Originally published in 1921 as Logisch-philosophische abhandlung and the only major work published in his lifetime is here printed with the German text on the left page and the English translation by D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuinness on the right hand. Certainly, the… Ler mais sobre este item

(New York; 2006): Cambridge University Press. First American Edition. Octavo. 298 pages, index. While Thomas Aquinas (1224?-1274) was the greatest of the medieval philosophers. His first twenty-six questions on the existence and nature of God are essential. Modern skeptics have attempted to discount what Aquinas wrote but the depth and genius of his writing is still recognized as among… Ler mais sobre este item

Notre Dame, Indiana; (2007): University of Notre Dame. First Edition. Octavo. xx, 432 pages. This book available for the first time in an English translation of William of Ockham's work on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, which contains his theory of scientific demonstration and philosophy of science. John Lee Longeway also includes an extensive commentary and a detailed history of the… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Sheed and Ward, 1945. Octavo. 367pp., While there have been several books written about St. Augustine, this work is dedicated to the more general aspects of St. Augustine's thought. This is the first attempt to evaluate the general influence which St. Augustine has had in Western thought and culture and his meaning for us at the present day.… Ler mais sobre este item

Girard, Kansas; Nd. (ca.1920): Haldeman-Julius Co. 3 1/2" X 5" Little Blue Book. These small 64 pages books were the ways that introduced the hoboes, seamen, and others on the road to literature, philosophy and history. Louis L'Amour in his The Education of a Wandering Man tells how these little books became a vital part of his education on… Ler mais sobre este item

South Bend, IN; (1984): University of Notre Dame. Octavo. xxx, 446 pages. Translated by Oliva Blanchette. The French philosopher, whose most influential works, notably L'Action, aimed at establishing the correct relationship between autonomous philosophical reasoning and Christian belief. The French intellectual elite viewed his Christian persuasion as retrogressive. Today most of his critics are unknown and his original 1893… Ler mais sobre este item

Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1978. Limited Edition. Octavo. 484 pages, signed by the author. Sartre, in his plays, describes the stage as "a different imaginary realm". This edition also has a special introduction by the author where he shows how both No Exit and The Flies had meanings that met the censorship of the Third Reich. No Exit was… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1740. Octavo. . 2nd edition. (2), i- xvi, i-iv, (2), 1- lxviii, 344 pages. After lectures on bodily regimen that influenced William Law and Joh Wesley, he began his most serious works. He first wrote the Essay on Regimen consisted of six essays on natural philosophy in which Cheyne explained the interrelationship of mind… Ler mais sobre este item

Cambridge: Cambridge at the University Press, 1897. First Edition. Octavo. xvi, 201, pages. At the age of 11 young Russell was awakened to the beauty of geometry. His senior advisor at Cambridge was Alfred North Whitehead. He felt that the teaching of geometry was on techniques and had not dealt with his epistemological bearings. On the basis of his… Ler mais sobre este item

(Hampshire, England; 1997): Gower Publishing. Octavo. 535 pages. Illustrated by Peggy Leong. Dr. Foo Check Teck has taken his extensive studies of Sun Tzu's The Art of War and treats how each idea in the original was developed. The work was originally written over 2,500 years ago and yet today is still used in business, military and academic study… Ler mais sobre este item

Andover: Mark Newman, 1822. First American Edition. Octavo. In three volumes: vii, 536, vii, 528 and vii, 574, (2) pp. The last (2) pages of volume 3 are from the publisher noting a discrepancy in the arrangement. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind was published posthumously in 1820, because of his sudden death at the age of… Ler mais sobre este item

Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1935. Octavo. XI, 225 Pages, 4 leaves of plates; illustrations, facsmile, folded map. Li Sao (Lisso) is seen as the authentic work of Qu Yuan. The poem is considered to be an encoded self-portrait of the poet who, as minsiter of King Huai of Chu (reigned 328-299 B.C. repeatedly suffered misunderstandings, slanders, and intrigues. Finally, he… Ler mais sobre este item

Ithica, New York; (2000): Cornell Uniersity Press. First Edition. Octavo. 188pp., In On the Soul 3. 1-5, Aristotle goes beyond the five senses to the general functions of sense perception, the imagination and the so-called active intellect, the identity of which was still a matter of controversy in the time of Thomas Aquinas." "In his commentary on Aristotle's text,… Ler mais sobre este item

Manchester: J.E. Cornish, 1899. Quarto. 105pp. The essays are on Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume and John Stuart Mill. His essay on John Locke is among the most important and has led to scholars taking sides on his view. Bound in white linen lettered in gilt, spine plain, previous owner's name… Ler mais sobre este item

Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri, 2007. First Edition. Octavo. 189 pages, index. Professor Herndon has clarified the issues of Voegelin's rejection of the "the historical Jesus school" and he sees Paul not as an antithesis but one who implies what a Christian social order would look like. A profound book rooted in the sources of Voegelin's… Ler mais sobre este item

Washington, D.C.: (1997): Catholic University of America. Octavo. xv, 319 p. This important works covers the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. While it was a time of crisis in Spain, the adaptation of Erasmus' encomium of the liberal arts is covered to the period just before Cadalso's indictment of Salamanca as an institution of regression. The deep commitment to… Ler mais sobre este item

Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2010. First Edition. Octavo. . 150p. This study is an important reappraisal of Aristotelian cosmology. His belief that all celestial objects consist of the same substance that pervades the heavens but the author in a careful study argues that the heavenly stuff applied to the stars only. He also distinguishes the key points between Aristotle's view… Ler mais sobre este item