Product Description: Los fragmentos que componen esta antología proceden de la obra de cinco grandes representantes de la mística medieval: Hildegarda de Bingen, Beatriz de Nazaret, Matilde de Magdeburgo, Hadewijch de Amberes y Margarita Porete. Para una mujer de aquel tiempo entrar en un monasterio o abrazar la vida retirada significaba sobre todo la emancipación...read more

Product Description:     Hermann Cohen’s essay on Maimonides’ ethics is one of the most fundamental texts of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, correlating Platonic, prophetic, Maimonidean, and Kantian traditions. Almut Sh. Bruckstein provides the first English translation and her own extensive commentary on this landmark 1908 work, which inspired readings of medieval and rabbinic sources by Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The four books of The Family in Renaissance Florence do not present a single, homogeneously bourgeois outlook. They are a monument of attitudes. Written as a dialogue, they express conflicting points of view, enabling today’s readers to relive social and moral conflicts that troubled early capitalist society...read more

Product Description: Is Aquinas's Sententia libri Ethicorum an interpretation of Aristotle based on `principles of Christian ethics'? Or do we have in that work a presentation of the foundation of Aquinas's moral philosophy? Professor Doig answers these questions through an examination of the historical context within which the Sententia was composed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bowlin argues that the strength of Aquinas' moral theology is his assumption about our common lot: the good we desire is difficult to know and to will, particularly because of contingencies of various kinds--within ourselves, in the ends and objects we pursue, and in the circumstances of choice...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

One of the few surviving texts written by a woman of the Middle Ages, Dhuoda's "Libermanualis" was available in only two faulty Latin manuscripts until a third, superior one was discovered in the 1950s. This English translation by Carol Neel, based on the 1975 critical edition and French translation by Pierre Rich, will bring the work to a wider audience. "Handbook for William" expresses Dhuoda's maternal feelings, religious fervor, and learning. In instructing her children how they might flourish in God's eyes, as well as humanity's, Dhuoda reveals the authority of Carolingian women in aristocratic households. She dwells on family relations, social order, the connection between religious and military responsibility, and, always, the central place of Christian devotion in a noble life. In her introduction Carol Neel discusses the sociopolitical, literary, and theological background of "Handbook for William". (view table of contents)

Product Description: This study offers an alternative to rigid, legalistic interpretations of the substantial discussions of law in Thomas Aquinas's Summa theologiae and defends his ethics from charges of excessive legalism. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This text covers the work of 14th-century Franciscan Andrew of Neufchateau. It presents a selection of arguments prevalent during the medieval period for and against an ethics of divine commands, and Andrew's own theory of divine command; voluntaristic in nature, emphasizing divine liberty...read more

Product Description: For many years, philosophers have read Aquinas's ethical writings as if his moral doctrine ought to make sense completely apart from the commitments of Christian faith. Because Aquinas relied heavily upon rational arguments, and upon Aristotle in particular, scholars have frequently attempted to read his texts in a strictly philosophical context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For many years, philosophers have read Aquinas's ethical writings as if his moral doctrine ought to make sense completely apart from the commitments of Christian faith. Because Aquinas relied heavily upon rational arguments, and upon Aristotle in particular, scholars have frequently attempted to read his texts in a strictly philosophical context...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'Of realty the rarest-veined unraveler', John Duns Scotus was one of the profoundest metaphysicians who ever lived. In this volume, the world's foremost Scotus scholars collaborate to present the latest research on his work. In ethics, the focus is on practical wisdom, on beauty as an ethical concept, and on the independence of the virtues; in metaphysics, on modality, individuation, and being...read more

Product Description: In The Harmony of Goodness, Mary Beth presents the ethical vision of John Duns Scotus (1265-1308) in an integrated manner, bringing together aspects of virtue, moral reasoning, free choice, rational judgment, and spirituality as parts of a whole human life...read more

Product Description: The concept of virtue ethics changed dramatically during the late thirteenth century. Though Thomas Aquinas, remaining fairly consistent with Aristotle's teachings, posits virtues in the emotional part of the soul, just thirty years later Duns Scotus argues that all moral virtues must belong to the will...read more

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Product Description: This book is a study of the role of intellect in human action as described by Thomas Aquinas. One of its primary aims is to compare the interpretation of Aristotle by Aquinas with the lines of interpretation offered in contemporary Aristotelian scholarship...read more

Product Description: There is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the Renaissance Humanists merely as readers—as interpreters happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical texts. In Theory as Practice, Nancy Struever contests this accepted notion; by focusing on ethical inquiry, she presents the Humanists as engaged in subtle, innovative moral work...read more