From Empedocles to Wittgenstein historical essays in philosophy / Anthony Kenny.

Author/creator Kenny, Anthony, 1931-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoOxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,
Description218 p. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Seven concepts of creation -- Life after Etna: Empedocles in prose and poetry -- Virtue and the good in Plato and Aristotle -- Aristotle's criteria for happiness -- Practical truth in Aristotle -- Aristotle's Categories in the Latin fathers -- Essence and existence: Aquinas and Islamic philosophy -- Aquinas on the beginning of individual human life -- Thomas and Thomism -- Aquinas in America -- "Philosophy states only what everyone admits" -- Cognitive scientism -- The Wittgenstein editions -- Knowledge, belief, and faith -- The unity of knowledge and the diversity of belief.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-214) and index.
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LCCN 2008016743
ISBN9780199550821 (alk. paper)
ISBN0199550824 (alk. paper)

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