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This volume examines the relationship between theology and philosophy in Augustine's City of God, offering ways of negotiating the contested boundary between faith and reason. Topics covered include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, dystopian politics and moral psychology, and his conception of a Christian philosophy.

Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. These essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars examine a range of central and less-studied topics in the Meditations.

A guide to two early anthropological, ethical and aesthetic writings that mark a turning point in Kant's thought. Of interest to scholars of modern philosophy and its origins and to those studying German idealist philosophy, philosophical anthropology and political science.

This volume provides cutting-edge research on Aristotle's Physics by reassessing its key concepts, reconstructing its methodology, and determining the boundaries of Aristotle's natural philosophy. Due to the foundational nature of Aristotle's Physics itself, this volume is a must-read for all scholars working on Aristotle.

The essays in this volume provide a picture of the most interesting aspects of Plato's Republic, addressing questions that continue to puzzle and provoke today. This volume will be essential to those looking for thoughtful and detailed excursions into the problems posed by Plato's text and ideas.

This volume provides essays on the Laws, Plato's last dialogue and major work of political philosophy besides the Republic. The essays cover a wide range of topics in the Laws, including political and ethical philosophy, psychology, theology and aesthetics. It will interest philosophers, classicists and political theorists.

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the most important ethical treatises ever written, and has had a profound influence on the subsequent development of ethics. This collection of essays, written by both senior and younger scholars in the field, presents a thorough and close examination of the work.

The essays in this volume shed light on the principal arguments of the Critique of Practical Reason and explore their relation to Kant's critical philosophy as a whole. Engaging and critical, this volume will be invaluable to advanced students and scholars of Kant and to moral theorists alike.

This collection of essays, by international Kant scholars and moral philosophers, discusses Kant's philosophical development and his rejection of earlier moral theories, the role of happiness and inclination in the Groundwork, Kant's metaphysics and theory of value, and his attempt to justify the categorical imperative as a principle of freedom.

These 2010 essays offer a plurality of critical approaches to Kierkegaard's fundamental text of existential philosophy. They cover hotly debated topics such as the tension between the Socratic-philosophical and the Christian-religious; the identity of Kierkegaard's pseudonym 'Johannes Climacus'; his conceptions of paradoxical faith and of passionate understanding; and his contemporary pertinence.

Where does our contemporary morality come from and what purposes does it really serve? What would post-moral values look like? Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality tackles such central questions of ethics with unsurpassed brilliance and here fourteen leading philosophers mine that work for answers to these and other questions.

Descartes' Meditations, one of the most influential works in western philosophy, continues to provoke discussion and debate. These essays by leading established and emerging early modern scholars examine a range of central and less-studied topics in the Meditations.

This volume examines the relationship between theology and philosophy in Augustine's City of God, offering ways of negotiating the contested boundary between faith and reason. Topics covered include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, dystopian politics and moral psychology, and his conception of a Christian philosophy.

A guide to two early anthropological, ethical and aesthetic writings that mark a turning point in Kant's thought. Of interest to scholars of modern philosophy and its origins and to those studying German idealist philosophy, philosophical anthropology and political science.

This volume of essays covers the whole range of problems raised in and by Mill's On Liberty, including the concept of liberty, the toleration of diversity, freedom of expression, the value of allowing 'experiments in living', the basis of individual liberty, multiculturalism and the claims of minority cultural groups.