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Philosophy
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The Divine Names
A Greek treatise in thirteen chapters, written around 500 by an author who presented himself as Dionysius, the Athenian converted by Paul in Acts 17. It asks how…
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Revelations of Divine Love
An account of sixteen visions, or showings, received in May 1373 by a woman later known as Julian, who lived as an anchoress at Norwich. She wrote it…
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Against the Greek Logicians
A sustained critique of Aristotelian logic by the Damascene jurist and theologian Ibn Taymiyya, known in English mainly through Wael Hallaq's translation of al-Suyūṭī's abridgement. Ibn Taymiyya targets…
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Periphyseon (The Division of Nature)
A long dialogue in five books between a teacher and a student, written in the 860s by an Irish scholar at the court of Charles the Bald. Eriugena,…
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The Cloud of Unknowing
An anonymous guide to contemplative prayer, written in Middle English in the later fourteenth century, probably by a priest, for a young disciple. Its 75 short chapters teach…
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The Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
An encyclopedia of fifty-two epistles composed by an anonymous circle of scholars, probably in tenth-century Basra, who called themselves the Brethren of Purity. Its aim is to purify…
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Proslogion
A short meditation in twenty-six chapters, written around 1077–1078 when Anselm was prior of the abbey of Bec in Normandy. In the preface he says he looked for…
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The Sentences
A textbook of theology in four books, completed in Paris in the late 1150s. Peter Lombard gathered the opinions, or sentences, of the Church Fathers, above all Augustine,…
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Letters and Principal Doctrines
The main writings of Epicurus to survive complete, preserved because Diogenes Laërtius copied them into his Lives. The Letter to Herodotus summarises his physics: nothing comes from nothing,…
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Monologion
A treatise of eighty chapters, written around 1075–1076 at Bec for monks who wanted a meditation on God that relied on reason alone, not on the authority of…
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