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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782569503321

Autore

Kenny Anthony <1931->

Titolo

From Empedocles to Wittgenstein [[electronic resource] ] : historical essays in philosophy / / Anthony Kenny

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-383-04554-2

1-281-82583-2

9786611825836

0-19-156411-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Philosophy - History

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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. - ;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,