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From Empedocles to Wittgenstein : historical essays in philosophy / Anthony Kenny.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kenny, Anthony, 1931- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy--History.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Abbreviations; 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 BeliefBibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-04554-2
- 1-281-82583-2
- 9786611825836
- 0-19-156411-7
- OCLC:
- 310749266
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