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The Reading Augustine series presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religious scholars. John Rist...
A Study in Philosophical Growth
In an effort to confront this situation John Rist attempts to chart Aristotle's philosophical progress, using the techniques of both philology and phi...
Reconsidering the Foundations of Morality
This 2001 book is a powerful defence of an ethical theory based on a revised version of Platonic realism....
Ancient Thought Baptized
A detailed and accurate account of the character and effects of Augustine's thought....
This 1967 study begins with a brief biography of Plotinus, and goes on to discuss Plotinus' concept of the one, the logos and free will....
The doctrinal and structural revolution currently underway in the Roman Catholic Church is alarming for several reasons, not least because of the arbi...
Realities, Constructs, Illusions
Explores how the concept of person developed from both non-Christian and Christian sources and the ensuing impact of post-Christian culture. This book...
Rist explores how and why Augustine's moral framework became distorted with time and proposes a return to a revitalized version of his thought....
Aquinas on Emotion
Surveying many of Plato's dialogues from the early, middle, and late periods, prominent philosopher John M. Rist shows how Plato gradually came to rea...
The Papacy and the Roman Catholic Church, 1848-2023
A Study in Ancient Philosophical Ethics
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Professor Rist's short introduction to the philosophy of Epicurus combines scholarship with clear exposition. All Greek in the text is translated, and...
This collection of essays by John M. Rist deals with Platonism in the Imperial Roman age and with its various and complicated relationships with the g...
The Road to Reality
Perhaps because he is strictly neither a classical nor a medieval philosopher, Plotinus' work has been rather reglected in the English-speaking world....
Studies in Plato, Plotinus, and Origen
"This study makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the development of ancient Platonism and of the influence of Greek philosophy on ...
An Introduction
Essays in Ancient Thought from Plato to Dionysius
This second set of papers by John Rist is concerned with attempts by (mostly pagan) thinkers in Greco-Roman antiquity to understand the nature of mora...
Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-modern World
"John and Anna Rist write with authority and ennui about nothing less than the loss of the foundational culture of the West. The authors characterise ...
Protocol of the Twenty-third Colloquy, 16 May 1976