From Empedocles to Wittgenstein: Historical Essays in Philosophy
Author:   Anthony Kenny (Formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford, and former President, British Academy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199550821


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   04 September 2008
Format:   Hardback
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From Empedocles to Wittgenstein is a collection of fifteen historical essays in philosophy, written by Sir Anthony Kenny in the early years of the 21st century. 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 not only one of the most respected historians of philosophy, and possibly the widest-ranging, but also one of the most successful at writing on the subject for a broad readership. In this volume he presents scholarly explorations of some themes which caught his interest as he worked on his acclaimed four-volume New History of Western Philosophy.

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Author:   Anthony Kenny (Formerly Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford, and former President, British Academy)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.30cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780199550821


ISBN 10:   0199550824
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   04 September 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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 Abbreviations Bibliography

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[These essays] document the most recent phase in the evolution of the thought of one of the most significant philosophers working today... Those new to Kenny's thought will find these papers offer an ideal first path into his comprehensive, careful, and clearheaded work. Those already familiar with his writings will be entertained and enlightened by these occasional pieces from the most recent phase of Kenny's distinguished career. Owen Goldin, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


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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.

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