From Empedocles to Wittgentstein

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-955082-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

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, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein. The author is not only one of the most respected historians of philosophy, and possibly the widest-ranging, but also one of the most successful at writing on the subject for a broad readership. In this volume he presents scholarly explorations of some themes which caught his interest as he worked on his acclaimed four-volume New History of Western Philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kenny, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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 Belief

- Abbreviations

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Sir Anthony Kenny has been President of the British Academy and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He has written many acclaimed books on the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy, including both scholarly and popular works on Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, and Wittgenstein.