From Empedocles to Wittgenstein : historical essays in philosophy / / Anthony Kenny
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| Autore: |
Kenny Anthony <1931->
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| Titolo: |
From Empedocles to Wittgenstein : 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: | 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. |
| 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.: | 9910819355703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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