The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: V... - 9780521236256

The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts: Volume 2, Ethics and Political PhilosophyAuthor(s): Arthur Stephen McGrade, John Kilcullen, Matthew Kempshall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521236256, 978-0521236256\nSynopsis\nThe eagerly-awaited second volume of The Cambridge Translations of Medieval Philosophical Texts will allow scholars and students access for the first time in English to major texts in ethics and political thought from one of the most fruitful periods of speculation and analysis in the history of western thought. Beginning with Albert the Great, who introduced the Latin west to the challenging moral philosophy and natural science of Aristotle, and concluding with the first substantial presentation in English of the revolutionary ideas on property and political power of John Wyclif, the seventeen texts in this anthology offer late medieval treatments of fundame.