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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819355703321

Autore

Kenny Anthony <1931->

Titolo

From Empedocles to Wittgenstein : 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.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Philosophy - History

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2008.

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.