Books written by Sir Anthony Kenny

  • The Wittgenstein Reader
    The Wittgenstein Reader

    This popular collection of Wittgenstein’s key writings represents the breadth and complexity of the philosopher’s work.

  • A Brief History of Western Philosophy
    A Brief History of Western Philosophy

    Spanning 2,500 years of thought, this superb volume provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, ...

  • The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy
    The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy

    Written by a team of distinguished scholars, this is an authoritative and comprehensive history of Western philosophy from its earliest beginnings to the present day.

  • Aquinas on Mind
    Aquinas on Mind

    My mind to me a kingdom is', wrote the Elizabethan poet Sir Edward Dyer. Gerard Manley Hopkins also saw the mind as an inward territory, but for him it was a region of terror: O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, ...

  • A Brief History of Western Philosophy
    A Brief History of Western Philosophy

    Spanning 2,500 years of thought, this superb volume provides essential coverage of the most influential philosophers of the Western world, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, ...

  • Aquinas on Mind
    Aquinas on Mind

    ... putting together and taking apart. An instance of a compositio would be the judgement 'arsenic is poisonous'; an instance of a divisio would be 'arsenic is not poisonous'. By 'putting together' Aquinas does not mean the putting together ...