From Empedocles to Wittgenstein historical essays in philosophy - Kenny, Anthony (Clarendon Press, 2008)
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-214) and index
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. The author is one of our most respected, most accessible, and widest-ranging historians of philosophy. - ;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