This major work from Quentin Skinner presents a fundamental reappraisal of the political theory of Hobbes. Using, for the first time, the full range of manuscript as well as printed sources, it documents an entirely new view of Hobbes' intellectual development, and reexamines the shift from a humanist to a scientific culture in European moral and political thought. By examining...(展开全部)

Our communication is limitedby misunderstanding. Rhetoric, as Professor Richards defines it, is the study of misunderstanding and its remedies. The conventional rules of the old rhetoric and the formulations of scientific language have narrow application to conversational speech; Professor Richard's definition of rhetoric is based on a practical question: how do words work in d...(展开全部)

Benardete here interprets and, for the first time, pairs two important Platonic dialogues, the Gorgias and the Phaedrus. In linking these dialogues, he places Socrates' notion of rhetoric in a new light and illuminates the way in which Plato gives morality and eros a place in the human soul.

The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, point...(展开全部)

This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics. This new edition, prepared by an acclaimed translator and scholar of Kant's practical philosophy, presents the first new translation of the work to...(展开全部)

作者简介：霍华德•沃伦德（Howard Warrender,1922-1985），英国著名政治学家和霍布斯研究学者，1943年以第一名的成绩毕业于牛津大学PPE专业，之后相继任教于格拉斯哥大学、英国女王大学和谢菲尔德大学，其研究和编辑出版的霍布斯著作，在霍布斯学界以及政治理论界产生了巨大的影响。 译者简介：唐学亮，哲学博士，西安交通大学法学院副教授、博士生导师，主要从事法理学、公法理论与政治哲学研究，系国际霍布斯学会会员、欧洲霍布斯学会会员。

作者杰拉德•汉拉第，爱尔兰人，是宗教哲学研究专家，曾任都柏林大学哲学系教授，已退休。除了这本《灵知派与神秘主义》，他还著有《启蒙时代的哲学家：洛克、休谟、贝克莱再审视》（1995）、《巴黎之光：红衣主教勒斯蒂格论信仰与当代文化》（1995）等。