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The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 1; Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Gorgias, Menexenus.

By: Plato. (Translated and with commentary by R. E. Allen).

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut., Yale University Press.: (1984)

Seller ID: 33130

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 23.5 x 15.5 cm.; xiv - 350 pp. First published in 1984, this is the eleventh printing and is volume 1 only of the 4 volume set. Allen uses a format where the translation of each piece is preceded by his comment. The book begins with an extensive 25 page introduction. Six page index at the back. Very minor wear and light scuffing to the covers, otherwise the book appears to have been used very little if at all.
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Meaning.

By: Polanyi, Michael and Harry Prosch.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois., University of Chicago Press.: 1979

Seller ID: 24841

ISBN: 0226672948

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; xiv - 246 pp. First published in 1975, this is a later printing. Polanyi delivered 3 series of lectures on the subject of meaning at the University of Chicago and the University of Texas. Prosch, with much help and advice from Polanyi, then worked the essays into a cohesive whole, the result being this book. Two page bibliographical note and an 18 page index at the back. The covers show minor wear while the interior is clean and the binding is tight.
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Religious Language: An Empirical Placing of Theological Phrases.

By: Ramsey, Ian T.

Price: $5.60

Publisher: London, UK., SCM Press.: 1957

Seller ID: 23476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; 191 pp. Light gray cloth over boards with gilt lettering on a black spine panel. One of the Library of Philosophy and Theology series from SCM Press. Three indices: names, general, biblical references. Previous owner's address label on the front free end paper. Otherwise very clean with no marks in a solid binding and a trace of shelf wear to the tail edges of the boards.
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Gandhi's Concept of Political Obligation.

By: Rattan, Ram.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Calcutta, India., Minerva Associates: 1972

Seller ID: 9080

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; (14) - 346 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Originally submitted as a doctoral dissertation by Rattan at Delhi University. The author probes the concepts of political obligation, state function and satyagraha. Usual library markings with library stamp on all three text block edges and a sticker ghost on spine.
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Essays on the Active Powers of the Mind.

By: Reid, Thomas.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts., M.I.T. Press.: 1969

Seller ID: 25643

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; xxiv - 481 pp. Reproduced from Volumes III and IV (1815) of "The Works of Thomas Reid" as published by Samuel Etheridge of Massachusetts. Introduction by Baruch Brody. Adapted from the back cover: Reid was a seventeenth century Scottish philosopher who in his works on ethics in the areas of free will and ideas was in opposition to Hume and his ideas of skepticism. The book shows very mild wear to the covers and is otherwise clean and tight.
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The Loss and Recovery of Transcendence: The Will to Power and the Light of Heaven.

By: Robertson Jr., John C.

Price: $6.40

Publisher: Allison Park, Pennsylvania., Pickwick Publications.: 1995

Seller ID: 25070

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; xvii - 108 pp. Volume 39 in the Princeton Theological Monograph Series edited by Dikran Y. Hadidian. Four page index of names and a 2 page index of subjects at the back. The spine is a tad sunned or faded, otherwise the book appears to have never been used.
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Definition.

By: Robinson, Richard.

Price: $31.50

Publisher: London, UK., Oxford at the Clarendon Press.: 1954

Seller ID: 31938

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; viii - 207 pp. Reprinted from the corrected sheets of the first edition. Robinson (1902-1996) was an English philosopher and educator at Cornell and then Oxford universities. Contents: Disagreements About Definition, Word-Thing Definition, Lexical Definition, Stipulative Definition, Methods of Word-Thing Definition, Real Definition, Definition in Mathematics, Some Discussions of Definition, Index. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt spine lettering. Former owner's name on front free endpaper, minor soiling on text block edges; text pages clean and binding sturdy. Dust jacket...
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Humanism in Practice: A Blue-Print for a Better World.

By: Roshwald, M.

Price: $6.75

Publisher: London, UK., Watts & Co.: 1955

Seller ID: 9267

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

12mo - 18.5 x 12 cm.; 100 pp. Written by a lecturer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this book looks at a plan of action to develop a society based on humanist ideals, in this case, "democracy at home and world government abroad". This editon was printed for members of the Rationalist Press Association. Blue paper-covered boards with black spine lettering. Minor shelf wear, erasure on the front free end paper, pages browning; binding tight, text pages clean. The dust jacket is lightly soiled with light edgewear.
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Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages.

By: Rubenstein, Richard E.

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Orlando, Florida., Harcourt.: 2003

Seller ID: 29120

ISBN: 0965800849

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xii - 368 pp. First soft cover edition and so stated on the copyright page. Thirty-seven pages of notes, a 14 page select bibliography and a 16 page index. The book appears to have been used very little if at all.
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Philo in Early Christian Literature; A Survey. (Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum).

By: Runia, David T.

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minesota / Assen, Netherlands., Fortress Press / Van Gorcum & Comp. B. V.: 1993

Seller ID: 31239

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 23.5 x 15 cm.; xv - 418 pp. Glossy black paper over boards with white lettering on the spine and both front and back boards. This is volume 3 in the series "Jewish Traditions in Early Christian Literature" published under the auspices of the Foundation Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum of Amsterdam. "In this book the suthor first examines how Philo's works are related to the New Testament and the earliest Christian writings, and how they were used by Greek and Latin church fathers up to 400 CE with special attention to the contributions of Clement, Origen, Didymus, Eusebius...
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Philosophical Perspectives.

By: Sellars, Wilfrid.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Springfield, Illinois., Charles C. Thomas.: 1967

Seller ID: 19107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; vii - 424 pp. Light blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. First published in 1959, this is the second printing. A collection of sixteen previously published papers, lectures, essays and presentations by Sellars. A ten page index is at the back. The covers show the mildest of shelf wear and the text block head edge is darkened. Otherwise the book is very clean with a sound and solid binding.
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Essays in Ethics and Religion, With Other Papers

By: Seth, James (edited with a short memoir by A. Seth Pringle-Pattison)

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons.: 1926

Seller ID: 23909

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo - 20 x 13 cm.; xxxviii - 208 pp. Seth (1860-1924 or 1925) was a Scottish professor of philosophy who taught principally at the University of Edinburgh but also at Dalhousie College, Brown and Cornell. This volume was published shortly after his death as a tribute. It includes a frontis portrait and a second portrait, a memoir, a collection of his writings, and appendices - Professor James Seth and His Classroom, Two Graduation Addresses, Halifax Revisited, List of Publications. Blue cloth-covered boards with black spine lettering. Light edgewear on boards, former owner's name on front free...
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A Political Philosophy of M. N. Roy.

By: Sharma, Dr. R. B. S.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Delhi, India., National Publishing House: 1965

Seller ID: 22361

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; (4) - 147 - (1) pp. Tan cloth with black lettering on front and spine. Manabendra Nath Roy established the first Communist Party outside of Soviet Russia and did so in Mexico. He was also quite active in the Chinese communist movement. The book presents the historical progression of Roy's political philosophy and concludes with a draft version of the "Constitution of Free India". Usual library markings including stamps on the text block edges. The book has been cheaply produced and the binding, though still good, is a tad tender. A relatively uncommon but importan...
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Philosophy and Its History.

By: Smart, H. R.

Price: $4.80

Publisher: La Salle, Illinois., Open Court Publishing.: 1962

Seller ID: 19183

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20.5 x 13.5 cm.; [16] - 158 pp. Subtitled: "A critical examination of the permanent values to philosophy of its own history". Footnotes and with two indices; names and subjects. Minor shelf wear to the externals and the spine is sunned. The interior is clean and the binding is solid.
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The Philosophy of Religion.

By: Smart, Ninian.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, UK., Sheldon Press.: 1979

Seller ID: 25631

ISBN: 0859691675

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; ix - 196 pp. First published by Random House in 1970, this is the British edition and is volume 6 in the Sheldon Press series "Studies in Philosophy and Religion" under the general editorship of P. R. Baelz. Six page general index at the back. The cover edges show mild shelf wear and the spine has a surface crease. Otherwise very clean and tight.
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Reason and God: Encounters of Philosophy with Religion.

By: Smith, John E.

Price: $4.80

Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut., Yale University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 16611

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; xv - 274 pp. First published in 1961, this is the fourth printing. " . . . the author explores philosophical speculations of the past two hundred years which deal with ultimate, religious issues, and examines the role of philosophy in modern theology." Previous owner's name on the first page and the covers show moderate shelf wear and a sunned spine. The interior is clean and the binding is solid.
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The Concept of Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas and Lon Fuller.

By: Smith, Marc Edward.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: St. John, New Brunswick., The University of New Brunswick.: 1971

Seller ID: 24878

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

4to - 28 x 21.5 cm.; x - 167 - [1] pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Printed on the rectos only with versos being blank and not numbered. A Master of Arts thesis submitted to the Department of Philosophy at UNB. Signed by the author with a dated inscription on the front free end paper.; Signed by Author
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Eros, Agape and Philia: Readings in the Philosophy of Love.

By: Soble, Alan. (editor).

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York., Paragon House.: 1989

Seller ID: 24089

ISBN: 1557782784

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xxv - 305 pp. The 27 readings are divided into 5 main sections: Where We Are, Classical Sources, Exploring the Classics, Contemporary Analysis and an appendix of 6 items. Mild shelf wear to the cover edges with a clean interior and a sound binding.
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Treatise on Law: Summa Theologica, Questions 90-97.

By: St. Thomas Aquinas.

Price: $3.60

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois., Regnery Gateway Edition.:

Seller ID: 32210

ISBN: 089526918X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

12mo - 17.5 x 11 cm.; xi - 116 pp. Seven page introduction by Stanley Parry. The library markings, none of which are external, are a stamp on the title page and attachments on the inside o the back cover. Otherwise clean with a sound bibding and showing only minor wear to the covers.
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Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima.

By: St. Thomas Aquinas.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Notre Dame, Indiana., Dumb Ox Books.: 2001

Seller ID: 34329

ISBN: 1883335711X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15.5 cm.; xxii - 276 pp. Translated by Kenelm Foster OP and Silvester Humnphries OP and first published by the Yale University Press in 1951, this later edition has a new 15 and a bit page introduction by Ralph McInerny written in 1994. Ten page "Concordance of Pirotta and Leonine Editions" followed by a 6 page alphabetical index of subjects. The Aristotelian text is in italics at the start of each lecture and the commentary in translation follows being printed 2 columns per page. Very minor wear to the covers and the spine is faded. otherwise clean with a sound binding.
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Category: Philosophy