Moral Philosophy: An historical and critical survey of the great systems
by Maritain, Jacques; translated by Marshall Suther, et al.; edited by Joseph W. Evans
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1964. Overview, history, & critique of ethical systems, including the ideas of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics & Epicureans, Christianity, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Comte, Sartre, Dewey, Bergson. Maritain was an important moral philosopher and defender of the idea of natural law, strongly informed by Thomas Aquinas. By the time of this book's publication, had retired from teaching philosophy at Princeton and returned to his native France. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first British edition. Light wear to book; jacket shows minor rubbing, light tanning; ink name & date on free endsheet. Text clean; xii, 468 pages; index.. First Edition in English. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Large Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- w0660
- Title
- Moral Philosophy: An historical and critical survey of the great systems
- Author
- Maritain, Jacques; translated by Marshall Suther, et al.; edited by Joseph W. Evans
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition in English
- Publisher
- Geoffrey Bles
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1964
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Intellectual history, History of Philosophy, Great Thought, Ethics, Morality, religion
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About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
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Beloit, Wisconsin
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...