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Ramus: Method and the Decay of Dialogue. From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason.

By: Ong SJ., Walter J.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press.: 1983

Seller ID: 24233

ISBN: 0674748026

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

8vo - 23.5 x 15 cm.; xix - 408 pp. First published in 1958, this is the second printing of the 1983 soft cover edition. Footnotes, 15 page bibliography and a comprehensvie 14 page index. Previous owner's name on the first page, the covers are mildly worn on the edges and the spine has surface creases. The interior is clean and the binding is tight.
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The Estranged God: Modern Man's Search for Belief.

By: Padovano, Rev. Anthony T.

Price: $7.20

Publisher: Mission, Kansas., Sheed Andrews and McMeel.: 1966

Seller ID: 31873

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good+

8vo - 20.5 x 13.5 cm.; xvii - 300 pp. One of the "Sheed and Ward Classics" from this publisher. Extensive notes at the end of each of the four chapters. Four page bibliography, 3 page index of names and a 2 page index of subjects. Mild wear and scuffing to the covers and a label scar on the top fore edge coner of the front cover. Previous owner's name (elegantly done too) on the first (half title) page. Otherwise clean with a sound binding.
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Réflexions sur les lois de l'intelligence: Étude de logique.

By: Patry OMI., Marcel.

Price: $5.60

Publisher: Montreal, Quebec., Fides.: 1965

Seller ID: 28230

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

8vo - 21.5 x 16.5 cm.; 143 pp. The text is in French. Stiff off-white wraps with black lettering. The first page, a blank one, has been removed. Small check marks next to some items in the table of contents and the front cover has a 7 cm long scatch. Otherwsie the interior is clean and the binding is sound and solid.
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The Melody of Theology: A Philosophical Dictionary.

By: Pelikan, Jaroslav.

Price: $6.75

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts., Harvard University Press.: (1988)

Seller ID: 29683

ISBN: 0674564731

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; x - 274 pp. First published in 1988, this is a second printing. Four page index at the back and a 2 page alphabetical list of contents at the front. Minor shelf wear to the covers and the back cover is a tad sunned or browned on the fore edge margin, else very clean with a sound binding.
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Butler.

By: Penelhum, Terence.

Price: $12.80

Publisher: London, UK., Routledge & Kegan Paul.: 1985

Seller ID: 25117

ISBN: 0710205996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; x - 221 pp. Brown cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. A volume from "The Arguments of the Philosophers" series under the general editorship of Ted Honderich. Four page bibliograph y and a 3 page general index at the back. From the dust jacket flap: ". . .Penelhum's aim in this study is to provide a contemporary review of Butler's ethics, and to show that the major arguments of his philosophy of religion still tell us much of present-day importance . . . In particular . . . Butler's classic case against egoism and psychological hedonism . . ." ...
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Modern Thomistic Philosophy: An Explanation for Students. Vol. I - The Philosophy of Nature. Vol. II - Metaphysics. (complete in 2 volumes).

By: Phillips, R. P.

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Westminster, Maryland., The Newman Press.: 1959

Seller ID: 31778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; Vol. I: xiv - 346 pp. Vol. II: xii - 400 pp. Dark blue/black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spines. First published by the Newman Press in 1934/35, this is a later reprint. Phillips was a Professor of Philosophy at St. John's Seminary in Wonersh, Surrey, England at the time of writing and these two volumes were written specifically to present a simple explanation of the philosophy taught to Catholic students of the day and that being primarily Thomistic and Aristotelian. Seven page bibliography and a 16 page general index at the back of volume II that appli...
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Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo. (second edition).

By: Plato. (G. M. A. Grube - translator).

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana., Hackett Publishing Company.: (2002)

Seller ID: 33171

ISBN: 0872206335

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; x - 156 pp. First published in this edition in 2002, this is the second edition revised by John M. Cooper and a later printing. Two page listing of suggestions for further reading at the back. Other than some very mild wear to the edges of the covers, this is an as-new and unused book.
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Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo. (second edition).

By: Plato. (G. M. A. Grube - translator).

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Indianapolis, Indiana., Hackett Publishing Company.: (2002)

Seller ID: 33172

ISBN: 0872206335

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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: 33129

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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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

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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Meaning.

By: Polanyi, Michael and Harry Prosch.

Price: $7.20

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

Seller ID: 26943

ISBN: 0226672948

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; xiv - 246 pp. First published in 1975, this is a later softcover 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 with a corner crease on the top fore edge of the front 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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Category: Philosophy