Philosophy – Ancient to Contemporary

El Llibre de paraules i dites de savis i filòsofs és una obra de caràcter didàctic i moralitzador que recull 753 sentències provinents d'origens diversos. Feta per encàrrec del rei Jaume II, rec …

Los Col·loquis de la insigne ciutat de Tortosa és una magnífica obra literària escrita per Cristòfol Despuig el segle XVI. Malgrat la distància que ens en separa, els temes tractats són de plena vigè …

Isabel de Villena és l'única escriptora medieval en llengua catalana de la qual en coneixem el nom i escriu la seva obra al llarg del segle XV, compartint temps amb els millors escriptors del se …

Politics is a work of political philosophy by Aristotle, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher. Man is naturally a political animal” is it possible for a state to achieve the ideal state …

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high qu …

This book is a history of human views and ideas and their related motives and consequences, from pre-history and early civilization through Judaic, Greek, and Christian heritages, and all the way up …

Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller’s specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art …

Kant claims to have established his table of categories or ‘pure concepts of the understanding’ according to the ‘guiding thread’ provided by logical forms of judgment. By drawing extensively on Kant …

Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality—and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 milestones of the most important theories, events, and seminal publ …

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impa …