From Empedocles to Wittgenstein :historical essays in philosophy
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Oxford
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Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]213[-214( and index
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Anthony Kenny
CONTENTS NOTE
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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