From Empedocles to Wittgenstein [[electronic resource] ] : historical essays in philosophy / / Anthony Kenny
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| Autore: |
Kenny Anthony <1931->
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| Titolo: |
From Empedocles to Wittgenstein [[electronic resource] ] : historical essays in philosophy / / Anthony Kenny
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Clarendon Press |
| New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 190 |
| Soggetto topico: | Philosophy - History |
| Philosophy | |
| 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, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | From Empedocles to Wittgenstein |
| ISBN: | 1-383-04554-2 |
| 1-281-82583-2 | |
| 9786611825836 | |
| 0-19-156411-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782569503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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