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Philosophy
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On Being and Essence
A short treatise written in Paris in the mid-1250s, early in Aquinas's career, for his fellow Dominicans. It explains two basic terms of metaphysics. Drawing on Aristotle and…
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The Incoherence of the Philosophers
A polemical work in twenty discussions in which al-Ghazālī, then a leading teacher in Baghdad, examines the metaphysics of the philosophers, above all Ibn Sīnā. His stated aim…
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The Elements of Theology
A systematic summary of Neoplatonic metaphysics set out in 211 numbered propositions, each with a proof, in the manner of Euclid's geometry. It begins from the claim that…
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A Treatise on God as First Principle
A short, tightly argued treatise on natural theology, among Scotus's last works, drawing on his lectures on the Sentences. It opens and closes with prayer, and proceeds like…
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The Incoherence of the Incoherence
Ibn Rushd's point-by-point reply to al-Ghazālī's Incoherence of the Philosophers, written some eighty-five years after it. He quotes al-Ghazālī passage by passage and answers each in turn. He…
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Isagoge
A brief introduction to Aristotle's Categories, written by the Neoplatonist Porphyry, pupil and editor of Plotinus, for a Roman student named Chrysaorius. It explains five terms needed for…
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Selected Sermons and Treatises
A selection of the German sermons and treatises of Meister Eckhart, the Dominican preacher and Paris master who died around 1328. Most of the sermons were preached in…
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The Decisive Treatise
A short work in the form of a legal opinion by Ibn Rushd, who was a judge as well as a philosopher. It asks whether the religious Law…
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The Consolation of Philosophy
A dialogue in five books, alternating prose and verse, written around 524 while Boethius was in prison awaiting execution on a charge of treason. Lady Philosophy appears at…
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On Learned Ignorance
A treatise in three books, finished in 1440. In the dedication to Cardinal Julian Cesarini, Nicholas says its guiding idea came to him at sea, on his way…
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