From Empedocles to Wittgenstein historical essays in philosophy /

Kenny, Anthony (1931-....)

From Empedocles to Wittgenstein historical essays in philosophy / [Texte imprimé] : Anthony Kenny - Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press ; 2008 - 1 vol. (218 p.) ; 23 cm

Index

Bibliogr. p. [213]-214

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

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Philosophy

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