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Aquinasby Anthony KennyISBN 0192875000 (0-19-287500-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aquinas'Book summary:`It is hard to see how such a book could be done better ...Anthony Kenny ...manages to convey with great vividness the astonishing depth and intensity of Thomas's commitment to coherent rational understanding and the prodigious intellectual industry which he displayed in its pursuit.' John Dunn, London Review of Books St Thomas Aquinas's theological works, and especially his masterpiece the Summa Theologiae contain philosophical insights which entitle him to be considered as one of the world's greatest philosophers. Anthony Kenny's masterful introduction gives an account of St Thomas's life and works, sketching the major concepts of Aquinas's metaphysical system including his doctrine of Being, with the last chapter devoted to his philosophy of mind. This book is intended for students of theology and philosophy - particularly medieval or metaphysical. Students of the literature and history of the medieval period. [via]
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Aristotle on the Perfect Lifeby Anthony KennyISBN 0198236034 (0-19-823603-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aristotle on the Perfect Life'Book summary:Aristotle's teaching on the subject of happiness has been a topic of intense philosophical debate in recent years; it is of vital importance to the question of the relevance of his ethics in the present day. Aristotle's admirers struggle to read a comprehensive account of the supreme happiness into the Nicomachean Ethics; Kenny argues that those who are prepared to take the neglected Eudemian Ethics seriously preserve their admiration intact without doing violence to any of the relevant texts of the Nicomachean Ethics. Kenny has refined his position on the relation between the two works, offering a fresh examination and interpretation of the Eudemian Ethics on the basis of the 1991 Oxford Classical Text. He combines scholarly discussion of the Greek texts with reflection of the topics covered by Aristotle, taking account of post-Aristotelian treatments of themes such as moral vocation and moral luck. [via]
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Fregeby Anthony KennyISBN 0140125507 (0-14-012550-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Frege'Book summary:Frege was the founder of modern logic: as a logician and philosopher of logic he ranks with Aristotle. He was little known in his life time but has had a large influence on analytical philosophy through Russell and on continental philosophy through Husserl. He is thought of as a philosophers' philosopher, but it was his genius that made possible the work of writers who have caught the attention of the general public, such as Wittgenstein and Chomsky; and his invention of mathematical logic was one of the major contributions to the development in many disciplines which resulted in the invention of computers, with all their effects on individuals and society. [via]
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The Metaphysics of Mindby Anthony KennyISBN 0192830708 (0-19-283070-8)
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The Oxford Diaries of Arthur Hugh Cloughby Arthur Hugh Clough, Anthony KennyISBN 0198117396 (0-19-811739-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Diaries of Arthur Hugh Clough'Book summary:Arthur Clough (1819-1861), one of the most undervalued of Victorian writers, is only now being recognized as a major poet. While an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, he wrote a series of intensely personal diaries that provide a candid view of his thoughts about the Victorian era, and that chart his development as a poet. In the letters, he discusses his Oxford education, the constant struggle between the liberal and the catholic view of Christianity which eventually led him to agnosticism, his interest in Newman's work at Oxford, and the influence of Thomas Arnold at Rugby. In lighter moments, the diaries paint a picture of a happier Clough, boating up the river and walking with Matthew Arnold through the countryside. [via]
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The Oxford History of Western Philosophyby Anthony Kenny , Oxford University Press, Anthony John Patrick KennyISBN 0192893297 (0-19-289329-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford History of Western Philosophy'Book summary:This splendidly written volume takes the reader on a magnificent chronological tour through the revolutions of thought that have forged the Western philosophical tradition from ancient times to the present. Throughout, the six contributors--an internationally renowned team of philosophers including Roger Scruton, Anthony Quinton, and Anthony Kenny--bring the astonishingly diverse, wide-ranging landscape of intellectual history into sharp focus, emphasizing how notions seen today as part of an inevitable march of ideas were in their own time often considered radical, if not revolutionary. Thus we are treated to lively accounts of how Plato's "theory of forms" and Aristotle's pioneering exercises in logic broke with the past to irrevocably alter the course of Western thought. The authors also reveal the relationships between landmark thinkers, and the ways they drew on their intellectual heritage. They show, for instance, how St. Augustine and Aquinas, though advancing the cause of Christian doctrine, picked up where their pagan Greek forebears had left off. We witness how, during the Renaissance, the profound empiricist ideas underlying Descartes's famous utterance--"I think, therefore I exist"--lived in a tense but complementary relationship with Locke's rationalist theories. Moving into the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the book explores how Hume greatly influenced Kant's conception of the "transcendental aesthetic," and how Hegel drew upon the lesser known (but groundbreaking) work of Fichte and Schelling. The authors bring the story up to our own time, vividly recounting the existential trend from Nietzsche ("God is dead") to Sartre, along with other increasingly fractious schools of thought.
Engagingly written and astonishingly far-reaching, The Oxford History of Western Philosophy provides the consummate introduction to the intellectual bedrock upon which Western civilization is built. [via]More editions of The Oxford History of Western Philosophy:
The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophyby Anthony KennyISBN 0192854402 (0-19-285440-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy'Book summary:What does philosophy look like? Can you take a picture of it? The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy may not answer these questions, but it manages to ask them artfully with just a hint of schizophrenia. Sometimes it is a concise but substantive account of the history of Western philosophy. Other times it is a coffee-table book that lends itself to casual thumbing-through. Pause long enough to wonder at Kant's silhouette, Jeremy Bentham's infamous Panopticon, a photo of Machiavelli's writing desk, or the Ephesian wall painting of Socrates. The volume lives up to its name: there are over two dozen full-colour pictures--such as Paul Gauguin's arresting painting Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?--and myriad black-and-white illustrations of all varieties.
Editor Anthony Kenny parses his history into just six chunks of philosophy--ancient, medieval, three flavours of modern, and political--but amazingly the book does not seem to skimp on details. The reader will find everything from a treatise on Psuedo-Dionysius to an explanation of Kant's Paralogisms of Pure Reason to an analysis of Wittgenstein's private language argument. The six contributors to this book are philosophical heavyweights and their accounts are inevitably coloured by their respective likes and dislikes. But in sum The Oxford History of Western Philosophy is first-rate scholarship that succeeds where almost all academic histories fail. --Eric de Place [via]
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A Path from Rome: An Autobiographyby Anthony KennyISBN 0192830503 (0-19-283050-3)
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Renaissance Thinkers: Erasmus, Bacon, More, Montaigneby Anthony Quinton, James McConica, Anthony KennyISBN 0192831062 (0-19-283106-2)
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Thomas Moreby Anthony Quinton, James McConica, Anthony KennyISBN 0192875736 (0-19-287573-6)
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What Is Faith?: Essays in the Philosophy of Religionby Anthony Quinton, James McConica, Anthony KennyISBN 0192830678 (0-19-283067-8)
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Wyclifby Anthony KennyISBN 0192876465 (0-19-287646-5)
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Wyclif in His Timesby Anthony KennyISBN 0198200889 (0-19-820088-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wyclif in His Times'Book summary:John Wyclif is best known as the originator of the first Bible in English and as a theologian whose ideas anticipated the Reformation. In celebration of Wyclif's sexcentenary, this collection illustrates his achievement as the foremost scholar of medieval England. The eminent contributors to the volume, who span a wide range of disciplines and contrasting schools of thought, examine Wyclif's enduring influence in the fields of history, philosophy, theology, and English language and literature. [via]
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