13 Top philosophy books like Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (Aristotelian Commentaries) by Thomas Aquinas

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Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (Aristotelian Commentaries)

By: Thomas Aquinas

4.50

Format: 870 pages, Paperback

The fine editions of the Aristotelian Commentary Series make available long out-of-print commentari…

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1. A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

4.11

Format: 521 pages, Paperback

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic semina… read more

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"[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy"

-Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus

"Plato's proposals in this matter are abhorrent to all true Christians. His intentions were, of course, excellent, for he desired the greatest possible improvement of the human race; but his good inte…"

-Frederick Charles Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome, From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus

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2. City of God

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

Format: 1186 pages, Paperback

No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than Augustine's City of… read more

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  • religion
"There are wolves within, and there are sheep without."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

"He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner."

-Augustine of Hippo, City of God

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3. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

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"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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4. Baudolino

By: Umberto Eco , William Weaver , R.C.S. Libri

3.79

Format: 527 pages, Paperback

It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked… read more

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"Tüm aşıklar gibi Baudlino da kibirli olmuştu."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"And so it was that the Poet, through an excess of theological refinement, was unable to satisfy his coarse carnal passion."

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

"There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the g…"

-Umberto Eco, Baudolino

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5. A History of Philosophy, Vol. 3: Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Okham, Francis Bacon, and the Beginning of the Modern World

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

3.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic semina… read more

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6. The Consolation of Philosophy

By: Boethius , None

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more

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7. Confessions

By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
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8. Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

By: Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke

4.42

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

This book, first published in 1898 in a highly edited version, quickly became a modern spiritual cl… read more

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"Love lives only by sacrifice"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"I have at last found my vocation; it is love!"

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"Love will consume us only in the measure of our self-surrender."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"It is for us to console our Lord, and not for Him to console us."

-Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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9. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

10. A History of Philosophy, Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy, from Augustine to Duns Scotus

By: Frederick Charles Copleston

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic semina… read more

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11. Interior Castle

By: Teresa de Ávila

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A cornerstone book on mystical theology, Interior Castledescribes the seven stages of union with Go… read more

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12. The Spiritual Combat

By: None , Lorenzo Scupoli , None , None

3.54

Format: 317 pages,

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13. Metaphysics

By: Aristotle , Joe Sachs

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Metaphysics (Greek: ta meta ta phusika) is one of the principal works of Aristotle & the first majo… read more

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14. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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15. Gravity's Rainbow

By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more

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16. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

By: Immanuel Kant , Christine M. Korsgaard , Mary J. Gregor

4.27

Format: 197 pages, paper

Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristo… read more

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17. History of the Peloponnesian War

By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner

3.94

Format: 648 pages, Paperback

Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more

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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

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18. The Symposium

By: Plato , Christopher Gill

4.09

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more

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"The truth about eros is terrifying."

-Plato, The Symposium

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"

-Plato, The Symposium

"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."

-Plato, The Symposium

"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"

-Plato, The Symposium

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19. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

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20. Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By: Evelyn Waugh

4.00

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. The most nostalgic and reflective of Evely… read more

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"Here my last love had died."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"No one is ever holy without suffering."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"I had been there before; I knew all about it."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

"My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret."

-Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

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21. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

By: Tom Holland

4.26

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. … read more

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"To hail a religion for its compatibility with a secular society was decidedly not a neutral gesture. Secularism was no less bred of the sweep of Christian history than were Orban's barbed-wire fences…"

-Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World

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22. Termination Shock

By: Neal Stephenson

3.83

Format: 708 pages, Hardcover

A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more

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23. All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism

By: James E. Dolezal

4.50

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Unknown to many, increasing numbers of conservative evangelicals are denying basic tenets of classi… read more

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  • religion
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24. Participation in God: A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics

By: Andrew Davison

4.75

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Few ideas have excited greater interest among theologians in recent decades than the idea of 'parti… read more

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25. Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (Aristotelian Commentaries)

By: Thomas Aquinas

4.50

Format: 870 pages, Paperback

The fine editions of the Aristotelian Commentary Series make available long out-of-print commentari… read more

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  • philosophy
  • religion
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26. Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science

By: Edward Feser

4.47

Format: 515 pages, Paperback

Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology ar… read more

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  • philosophy
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27. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

6 Top religion books like Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics (Aristotelian Commentaries) by Thomas Aquinas

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City of God

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Bettenson

3.93

The Consolation of Philosophy

Boethius , None

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Story of a Soul: The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux

Thérèse of Lisieux , John Clarke

4.42

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The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

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Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

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The Conquest of Gaul

S.A. Handford , Gaius Julius Caesar , Jane F. Gardner , Aulus Hirtius

4.11

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The Twelve Caesars

Robert Graves , Michael Grant , Suetonius

4.33

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