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Title: FROM EMPEDOCLES TO WITTGENSTEIN
HISTORICAL ESSAYS IN PHILOSOPHY
By: Anthony Kenny
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199550824
ISBN 13: 9780199550821
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 4 September, 2008
Pages: 232
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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