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Book of the Day "A New History of Western Phiosophy" by Anthony Kenny, Oxford University

Status: Available at ADBU Library, Tapesia Campus

Accession No.: 12419

"Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment into the modern world. He introduces us to the great thinkers and their ideas, starting with Plato, Aristotle, and the other founders of Western thought. In the second part of the book he takes us through a thousand years of medieval philosophy, and shows us the rich intellectual legacy of Christian thinkers like Augustine, Aquinas, and Ockham. Moving into the early modern period, we explore the great works of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume, and Kant, which remain essential reading today. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Hegel, Mill, Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein again transformed the way we see the world" 

About the Author: 
Sir Anthony Kenny has been Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, Chairman of the Board of the British Library, and President of the British Academy. He is a much acclaimed expert in classical philosophy and has a keen interest in the nature of human action and freewill.

He has written Wittgenstein (1973), The Oxford History of Western Philosophy (1994), What I Believe (2006), and A New History of Philosophy (2012), among many other books. Source: https://www.britannica.com/contributor/Anthony-JP-Kenny/6155

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