From Empedocles to Wittgenstein
Subtitle: historical essays in philosophy
By: Anthony Kenny.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780199550821
Subjects: Philosophy -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Concepts of creation; title: Life after Etna : Empedocles in prose and poetry; title: Virtue and the good in Plato and Aristotle; title: Aristotle's criteria for happiness; title: Practical truth in Aristotle; title: Aristotle's categories in the Latin fathers; title: Essence and existence : Aquinas and Islamic philosophy; title: Aquinas on the beginning of individual human life; title: Thomas and thomism; title: Aquinas in America; title: Philosophy states only what everyone admits; title: Cognitive scientism; title: The Wittgenstein editions; title: Knowledge, belief, and faith; title: The unity of knowledge and the diversity of Beli.