Philosophy Books

Contra Celsum

Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by...

tags: theology, catholic, philosophy, christianity, classics, church, religion, church history, history

Socrates Meets Sartre: The Father of Philosophy Meets the Founder of Existentialism: A Socratic Cross-Examination of Existentialism and Human Emotions

Socrates Meets Sartre: The Father of Philosophy Meets the Founder of Existentialism: A Socratic Cross-Examination of Existentialism and Human Emotions

by Peter Kreeft

Christian philosopher Kreeft (philosophy, Boston College) uses an imaginary dialogue between Socrates and Sartre to challenge the fundamental concepts of...

tags: fiction, philosophy, christian

I Surf, Therefore I Am: A Philosophy of Surfing

I Surf, Therefore I Am: A Philosophy of Surfing

by Peter Kreeft

This is the first book about surfing ever written by a philosopher. The author, a 70-year-old surfanatic, has been Professor of Philosophy at Boston College...

tags: philosophy

Socrates' Children: Ancient: The 100 Greatest Philosophers

Socrates' Children: Ancient: The 100 Greatest Philosophers

by Peter Kreeft

This is the first of a four-volume history of philosophy . . . on ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary philosophy. After the fourth volume is produced...

tags: philosophy

Treatise on Happiness

Treatise on Happiness

by Thomas Aquinas

The Treatise on HappinessTreatise on Happiness and the accompanying Treatise on Human ActsTreatise on Human Acts comprise the first twenty-one questions of...

tags: philosophy, religion, theology, nonfiction

On Evil

by Thomas Aquinas

The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. In it he examines the full range of questions associated...

tags: philosophy, religion, theology

Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima

Commentary on Aristotle's De Anima

by Thomas Aquinas

The fine editions of the Aristotelian Commentary Series make available long out-of-print commentaries of St. Thomas on Aristotle. Each volume has the full text...

tags: philosophy, religion, theology

Summa Theologica Volume 1

Summa Theologica Volume 1

by Thomas Aquinas

tags: philosophy, religion, history, school, theology, classics, academic, nonfiction

Selected Writings

Selected Writings

by Thomas Carlyle

As a prophet and preacher, Carlyle was an important and controversial figure in nineteenth-century thought. Carlyle is best known for his impressionistic...

tags: philosophy, essays, history, victorian, literature, politics, writing, 19th century, classics, memoir, autobiography, nonfiction, historical

The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz

The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz

by William Lane Craig

Book by Craig, William L.

tags: philosophy, history

A Survey of Christian Epistemology

A Survey of Christian Epistemology

by Cornelius Van Til

tags: theology, christian, religion, philosophy

The Confessions/The City of God/On Christian Doctrine (Great Books of the Western World, #18)

The Confessions/The City of God/On Christian Doctrine (Great Books of the Western World, #18)

tags: religion, philosophy, classics

Second Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls

Second Thoughts on the Dead Sea Scrolls

In this reader-friendly overview, one of the twentieth century's leading biblical scholars offers his insights into the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls for...

tags: religion, philosophy, history

The New Demons

by Jacques Ellul

Montre que dans un monde actuel lai͏̈cisé, sécularisé, rationnel, scientifique et technicien, la part du religieux et du sacré, à un niveau collectif comme à...

tags: theology, religion, philosophy

Sermons and Treatises (Meister Eckhart, Vol 1)

Sermons and Treatises (Meister Eckhart, Vol 1)

by Meister Eckhart

A faithful and authoritative translation of this fourteenth century Dominican theologian, who became the greatest of all German mystics.

tags: philosophy

Foundations of the Christian Religion (Foundations of Faith)

Foundations of the Christian Religion (Foundations of Faith)

by Blaise Pascal

In the past few hundred years, some great Christian thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries have penned works of literature that continue to influence...

tags: theology, philosophy, christianity, religion, christian

De l'art de persuader

De l'art de persuader

by Blaise Pascal

tags: philosophy, france, cultural

Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits

Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits

by Soren Kierkegaard

In his praise for Part I of Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the eminent Kierkegaard scholar Eduard Geismar said, "I am of the opinion that nothing of...

tags: spirituality, unfinished, philosophy, religion, christian

A Literary Review

A Literary Review

by Soren Kierkegaard

While ostensibly commenting on the work of a contemporary novelist, Kierkegaard used this review as a critique of his society and age. The influence of this...

tags: nonfiction, philosophy, denmark, cultural

Prefaces: Writing Sampler

Prefaces: Writing Sampler

by Soren Kierkegaard

"Prefaces" was the last of four books by Sren Kierkegaard to appear within two weeks in June 1844. "Three Upbuilding Discourses" and "Philosophical Fragments"...

tags: philosophy

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