Product Description: Ockham's first major work in a 20 year campaign against Pope John XXII, is a critical commentary on the Pope's document "Quia vir reprobus". It includes a discussion of the place of voluntary poverty in religious life, property in civil life, and its relation to natural rights and human law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The long-awaited second volume of The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts offers first-time English translations of major texts in ethics and political thought from one of the most fruitful periods of speculation and analysis in the history of Western thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The long-awaited second volume of The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts offers first-time English translations of major texts in ethics and political thought from one of the most fruitful periods of speculation and analysis in the history of Western thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Philosophical Commentary on the Words of the Gospel 'Compel Them to Come In', written by the Protestant philosopher Pierre Bayle in 1686-88, was a classic statement of the case for toleration at a time of extreme persecution. This collection of Kilcullen's writings on Bayle's work examines a wide range of 17th-century religious and philosophical issues, including Bayle's arguments, Arnauld's attack on Jesuit moral theories similar to Bayle's, the uses and limitations of "reciprocity" arguments, the "ethics of belief," and questions of moral responsibility and free will...read more