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Philosophy7718. : Pascal et Port-Royal Paris: Librairie Artheme Fayard. 1962 104pp, 31 x 24.5 cm. A publication to mark the tri-cententary of the death of Pascal. 18 contributors. Profusely illustrated. Gold-blocked linen-covered boards, in frayed dust-wrapper. Text in French. £23.006515. Berlin, Isaiah: Against the Current. Essays in the History of Ideas. London: Pimlico 1997. liii+410 pp. very good, paperback. Edited and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy. Introduction by Roger Hausheer. Essays on the importance of dissenters whose ideas still challenge conventional wisdom, Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu,Hume, Herzen and Sorel. £10.006514. Berlin, Isaiah: The Crooked Timber of Humanity Chapters in the History of Ideas. London: John Murray 1990. xii+276 pp. very good in dustwrapper. Eight essays on utopianism, cultural history, relativism, fascism, romanticism, nationalism. The longest essay on Joseph de Maistre is published here for the first time. £10.005559. Brown, Stuart C: Do Religious Claims Make Sense? An Essay in the Epistomology of Religion. London: SCM Press 1969 The Library of Philosophy and Theology. vi+188 pp. very good in dustwrapper. The intelligibility gap is the starting point of this original study. he examines attitudes to it by many recent philosophers and theologians, and the explanations they give. This leads to a discussion of the whole question of epistimology and religious claims. £8.004389. Burleigh, John H.S: The City of God A Study of St Augustine's Philosophy. The Croall Lectures 1944. London: Nisbet & Co. 1949 vii+226 pp, some examples of underlining but otherwise good in dustwrapper. £8.005106. Clark, Gordon H: William James. New Jersey: Presbyerian and Reformed Publishing co. 1978. 47 pp. paper covers. The International library of Philosophy and Theology Modern Thinkers Series edited by David H. Freeman. Apart from a rectangular mark on the front cover where a label has been removed, in good condition. £4.001606. Descartes R: The Method, Meditations and Selections from the Principles of Descartes. Edinburgh: W.Blackwood 1881. 292pp. with an introductory essay, historical and critical by John Veitch. minor foxing on fep's, minor pencil annotations. £8.005624. Dixon, W. Macneile: The Human Situation The Gifford Lectures delivered in the University of Glasgow 1935-1937 London: Edward Arnold reprinted 1943. 448 pp. no dustwrapper, bookplate on front pastedown, good. £5.005094. Dyson, A. O.: The Immortality of the Past. London: SCM Press 1974 viii+116 pp. very good in dustwrapper. In these Hensley Henson lectures the author discusses whether the past has lost its hold upon human conciousness. £6.005572. Fletcher, Joseph: Situation Ethics The New Morality. London: SCM Press 4th imp. 1966. 176 pp. paper covers, good. "not a book to read in tranquillity, it arouses vigorous feelings for and against. £5.005105. Freeman, David H: Tillich. New Jersey: Presbyerian and Reformed Publishing co. 1978. vii+42 pp. paper covers. The International library of Philosophy and Theology Modern Thinkers Series edited by David H. Freeman. Apart from a rectangular mark on the front cover where a label has been removed in good condition. £4.005561. Gogarten, Friedrich: Christ the Crisis London: SCM Press 1970 The Library of Philosophy and Theology. vi+308 pp. very good in dustwrapper. Translated by R.A. Wilson from the German, "Jesus Christus Wende der Welt", Tubingen 1967. A summary of this distinguished theologian's lifetime's work in philosophy, systematic theology, and exegisis centring on the two questions, who was the man Jesus? and who is Christ for us today? £8.005100. Hoff, Benjamin: The Tao of Pooh & the Te of Piglet. London: Methuen 1998. 423 pp. paper covers, illustrated, very good. The principles of Taoism through Winnie the Pooh and vice versa. Wisdom from a western Taoist. Charming but filled with insight. £5.001762. Johnston, Joseph: Bishop Berkley's Querist in Historical Perspective. Dundalk: DunDalgan Press 1970. vii + 220pp. d.w. v.g. A special edition of the Querist preceded by a number of excellent articles putting it into historical and social perspective. The Querist pub. in 1735-1737 was," the reaction of an Irish social idealist to social problems which needed to be understood in order to be remedied". £12.005090. Locke, John: The Reasonableness of Christianity as delivered in the Scriptures. London: The Marshall Press 1946. 92 pp. no d.w. good. edited by A.J. Ferris. £5.005065. MacKinnon, Donald M: Themes in Theology The Three-Fold Cord. Essays in Philosophy, Politics and Theology. Edinburgh: T.&T. Clark Ltd 1987. viii+ 243 pp. very good in dustwrapper. Papers on the philosophy of religion and of certain fundamental topics in ethics and Christian theology. Includes the theory of knowledge, unilateral disarmament, and the theology of the Incarnation. £12.006129. Mason, John: A Treatise on Self-Knowledge to which is added a Memoir of the Author. Leeds: Printed for M. Marsden & Co. Burley Barr. n.d. 16 by 10 cms. xxxiv+253 pp. half calf and marbled boards, new marbled paper), some rubbing to spine and corners. Some wear but generally good. A much reprinted book, this copy is an English provincial printing. £45.005564. Moltmann, Jurgen: Hope and Planning. London: SCM Press 1971 The Library of Philosophy and Theology viii+228 pp. very good in dustwrapper. Translated by Margaret Clarkson,from selections from the German,"Perspectiven der Theologie: Gessamelte Aufsatze", Mainz 1968. Moltmann was Professor of Systematic Theology at Tubingen, and his work is among the most important in recent Protestant Theology. These essays fall into two groups, the first is about theology and theologians, the concept of God and the understanding of his word for the present, and the second is concerned with scientific and ethical questions. £8.001605. Pascal. B: Thoughts on Religion and other Subjects London: Routledge 1893 320pp. good. translated into English by Basil Kennet. no 47 of Sir John Lubbocks Hundred Books. £8.006581. Plato: Symposium. London: The Folio Society 1991. xxi+67 pp. translated by Tom Griffith, introduction by Anthony Quinton, illustrated by Tom Phillips. Very good almost mint in cream coloured slip case. £18.007286. Reanney, Darryl: The Death of Forever A New Future for Human Consciousness. London: Souvenir Press 1995. xv+270 pp. paperback, as new. "A ground breaking book that overturns our beliefs about life, death and eternity and reveals our true place in the evolution of the cosmos" £5.007874. Runes, Dagobert D. editor: The Dictionary of Philosophy. New York: Philosophical Library fourth edition 1942. 343 pp. hardback, blue boards gilt spine title, in very good condition. A useful A-Z dictionary of terms used by philosophers. £5.007878. Scruton, Roger. editor: Conservative Thinkers: Essays from The Salisbury Review. London and Lexington: 1988. 323 pp. Very good almost as new in dustwrapper. Thinkers of the Conservative tradition are summarised and their relevance to the social and political conditions of the modern world displayed. Essays on Hooker, Shakespeare, Johnston, Hume, Burke, Goldsmith, de Maistre, de Bonald, Hegel, Scott, Jane Austen, Newman, Ruskin, Bradley, Santayana, Hayek, Voegelin, Oakeshott. £11.005099. Sheldrake, Rupert: A New Science of Life The Hypothesis of Formative Causation. London: Anthony Blond new edition 1985. 278 pp. paper covers, some wear otherwise good. the author maintains that species and organisms can learn, develop and adapt through a process which he calls morphic resonance. A new edition with an appendix of comments, controversies and discussions provoked by the first edition. £8.005104. Singer, C. Gregg: Toynbee. New Jersey: Presbyerian and Reformed Publishing co. 1980. 76 pp. paper covers. The International library of Philosophy and Theology Modern Thinkers Series edited by David H. Freeman. in good condition. £4.004649. Sponheim, Paul: Kierkegaard on Christ and Christian Coherence. London SCM Press 1968. xvii+332pp, in dustwrapper, very good. One of The Library of Philosophy and Theology series. Kierkegaard is shown to be more of a systematic theologian than has been realized, the second section relates him to the contemporary scene, Bonhoeffer, Tillich, the Bishop of Woolwich, early Barth. £8.004508. Tillich, Paul: The Protestant Era. London, Nisbet and Co. reprinted 1955. 305 pp, d.w. translated and edited by James Luther Adams £10.005120. Wunsch, William F: The World Within the Bible A Handbook to Swedenborg's Arcana Coelestia. New York: The New Church Press 1929. 161 pp. A significant study of the Arcana Coelestia published by Swedenborg between 1749-1756. Spine a little faded otherwise very good . £15.005117. Wurth, G. Brillenburg: Niebuhr New Jersey: Presbyerian and Reformed Publishing co. 1979. 41 pp. paper covers. The International library of Philosophy and Theology Modern Thinkers Series edited by David H. Freeman. Apart from a rectangular mark on the front cover where a label has been removed in good condition. £4.00 |
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