The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History University of San Francisco (USF) The USF Ricci Institute is a premier global resource for the study of Chinese-Western cultural exchange with a core focus on the social and cultural history of Christianity in [...]
Online event and a first step in the research project by Elena Rapetti, Savina Raynaud and Nicoletta Scotti according to the D.1 line grants (2019-20), financed by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and undertaken in its Philosophy Department under the title [...]
More information and purchase This volume, published by De Gruyter within the series "Topics in Ancient Philosophy" is a detailed study of the concept of the nutritive capacity of the soul and its actual manifestation in living bodies (plants, animals, [...]
Download | More information and purchase This book collects six unpublished and published academic studies on the thought of Francisco Suárez, which is addressed through accurate textual analyses and meticulous contextualization of his doctrines in the Scholastic debate. The present [...]
More information and purchase Edited by Raphaële Garrod (Oxford) and Alexander Marr (Cambridge), “Descartes and the Ingenium” tracks the significance of embodied thought (ingenium) in the philosophical trajectory of the founding father of dualism. The first part of the book [...]
More information and purchase In Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theater, Margarida Miranda takes a fresh look at the origins of Jesuit theater and provides a detailed account of the life and work of Miguel Venegas (1529–after 1588) within the [...]
More information and purchase Les Passions de l'âme is Descartes's last published work. When it appeared in 1649, both in Amsterdam and in Paris, the philosopher was already in Stockholm, invited by Christine of Sweden. Yet, it is for sure [...]
More information and free download This book presents a collection of selected essays from the papers presented to the international conference on Plato’s Parmenides on the occasion of the 2nd Meeting of the Mediterranean Section of the International Plato Society [...]
More information and free download "Escritos sobre escravidão" ("Writings on Slavery") is a new publication (203 pp. in Portuguese), by Lúcio Álvaro Marques and João Paulo Rodrigues Pereira. It collects several modern works (16th-19th century) on slavery, mainly from Jesuit [...]
More information and purchase Among all the Commentaries on the ‘Nichomachean Ethics’ by Aristotle, the Jesuit Coimbra Commentary (16th Century), written by Manuel de Góis, as a part of the widely known Jesuit Coimbra Commentaries (1592-1606), has its particularities. It [...]
Seminário História dos Jesuítas | 14 de Julho de 2020 18h30 - Brotéria Falar de astrologia no contexto da história dos Jesuítas parece estranho, quase absurdo. É aliás frequentemente assumido que a Sociedade de Jesus era completamente oposta a tais [...]
More information and free download This volume publishes the Proceedings of the 1st International Meeting "Thinking Baroque in Portugal" (26-28 June 2017), which dealt with the metaphysical, ethical and political thinking of Francisco Suárez. Counting on the collaboration of some [...]
More information and purchase With more than five-hundred entries, the present Dictionary (published, in Portuguese, by Palimage) is the result of one of the multiple lines of research carried out by the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the University of [...]
More information and purchase In this book, Henrik Lagerlund offers the first complete history of what is perhaps the most famous of all philosophical problems: skepticism. As the first of its kind, the book traces the influence of philosophical skepticism [...]
More information and purchase Aristotle's work known under the Latin name Parva Naturalia had an undeniable, international philosophical fortune. Among all the comments that this text knew, the most relevant is surely that made in Coimbra, in the 16th century, by [...]
More information and purchase This edited work is edited by Véronique Decaix and Ana María Mora-Márquez, and published by Springer in 2020. The book draws on a range of contributed expertise to trace the fortune of an Aristotelian thesis over [...]
