Anthony Kenny

From Empedocles to Wittgentstein

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Produktbeschreibung

Sir Anthony Kenny presents a selection of his historical essays in philosophy. In the main they are concerned with four of the great philosophers whom he most esteems, namely Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein. The author is one of our most respected, most accessible, and widest-ranging historians of philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780199550821
• ISBN-10: 0199550824
• Artikelnr.: 24766071

Autorenporträt

Sir Anthony Kenny has been President of the British Academy and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He has written many acclaimed books on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy, including both scholarly and popular works on Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Wittgenstein.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Seven Concepts of Creation
2: Life after Etna: Empedocles in Prose and Poetry
3: Virtue and the Good in Plato and Aristotle
4: Aristotle's Criteria for Happiness
5: Practical Truth in Aristotle
6: Aristotle's Categories in the Latin Fathers
7: Essence and Existence: Aquinas and Islamic Philosophy
8: Aquinas on the Beginning of Individual Human Life
9: Thomas and Thomism
10: Aquinas in America
11: "Philosophy states only what everyone admits"
12: Cognitive Scientism
13: The Wittgenstein Editions
14: Knowledge, Belief, and Faith
15: The Unity of Knowledge and the Diversity of Belief
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