A01=Anthony Kenny
Author_Anthony Kenny
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- ISBN 9780198238478
- Weight: 349g
- Dimensions: 141 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 2002
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Anthony Kenny offers a critical examination of a central metaphysical doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval philosophers. Aquinas's account of being is famous and influential: but Kenny argues that it in fact suffers from systematic confusion. Because of the centrality of the doctrine, this has implications for other parts of Aquinas's philosophical system: in particular, Kenny shows that the idea that God is pure being is a hindrance, not a help, to Aquinas's natural theology.
Kenny's clear and incisive study, drawing on the scholastic as well as the analytic tradition, dispels the confusion and offers philosophers and theologians a guide through the labyrinth of Aquinas's ontology.
