{"id":328,"date":"2017-05-31T15:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/?p=328"},"modified":"2017-05-31T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T15:11:28","slug":"new-past-masters-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/2017\/05\/31\/new-past-masters-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"New! Past Masters Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-329\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/files\/2017\/05\/Past-Masters-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"967\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/files\/2017\/05\/Past-Masters-banner.jpg 967w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/files\/2017\/05\/Past-Masters-banner-300x40.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/files\/2017\/05\/Past-Masters-banner-768x103.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/files\/2017\/05\/Past-Masters-banner-500x67.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 967px) 100vw, 967px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We now have access to <strong>Past Masters Commons<\/strong>, a growing series of important texts and translations that present the history of philosophy and thought.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A number of new works will be added in the course of 2017. However, the following are now available:<\/p>\n<p>Collected works of <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Chauncey Wright<\/span> <\/strong>(1830-1875), American mathematician, philosopher, co-founder of The Metaphysical Club and defender of Charles Darwin. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/files\/2017\/05\/suarez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Disputationes Metaphysicae<\/em> of the Spanish Jesuit, philosopher and theologian,<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong> Francisco Suarez<\/strong> <\/span>(1548-1617).<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Plotinus&#8217;<\/span><\/strong> <em>Enneads<\/em> (3rd century) in English translation. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-331 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/files\/2017\/05\/Montesquieu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Complete Works<\/em> in English translation of <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Montesquieu<\/span> <\/strong>(1689-1755), an Age of Enlightenment lawyer, political philosopher and man of letters.<\/p>\n<p>All accessible at <a href=\"http:\/\/pm.nlx.com\">here<\/a> and through the Library&#8217;s database <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/databases-a-z\/databases-p\">A-Z<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Coming later in 2017: <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Dugald Stewart<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Charles Sanders Pierce.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">[Images: courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have access to Past Masters Commons, a growing series of important texts and translations that present the history of philosophy and thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[27],"tags":[5],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Sa0k-5i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/pplslibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}