Aquinas'S Summa. Background, Structure, & Reception
This book offers a study of Aquinas' famous Work, Summa Theologiae. It is a relatively short text which analyzes the background of this Work, how it is structured and its...
Philosophy
Three reformers
A classic of philosophical thought on the limitations of modernity. It is a profound book, with theses of great actuality. With the passion of a convert, Maritain sets himself the task of showing the roots...
The Atlas of Reality
Robert Koons teaches philosophy at the University of Texas in Austin. In the last sentence of the text, he writes, "We have attempted to bring the reader as close as possible to the state of the art in...
Intelligent Virtue
Julia Annas wrote her important book “The Morality of Happiness” in 1995, in which she presented a thorough analysis of ancient eudemonistic, virtue ethics. In “Intelligent Virtue”, written in 2011, she...
Let Us Dream The Path to a Better Future
In this short book there are messages for all us and it’s written in an easy to follow style where the warmth but also the depth of the author’s character shines through. It was written in collaboration...
Beauty. What It is and Why It Matters
Beauty and the experience of beauty are something very attractive and at the same time very personal. Moreover, the proposal of beauty as the way to God, the creator of all things and, therefore, of all...
Hitler and the Germans
The book collects lectures by the author in 1964. It seeks to analyze how Nazism was possible in Germany. For Voegelin all German institutions - military, judges, teachers, churches, etc. - were omitted or...
America on Trial. A Defense of the Founding
Robert R. Reilly is the author of the recently published book America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding. He examines the intellectual underpinnings of the ideas which inspired the creation a new...
Who Am I to Judge?
A very interesting book entitled ‘Responding to Relativism with Logic and Love’. The author gives clear and very useful guidelines to dialogue with relativism that dominates in many university,...
Nichomachean Ethics
In our days friends are counted by tens, by hundreds, by thousands !; but most of us hardly know the surname, or the city where they live, or why they cry when they see the pages of the calendar. More and...