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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Aquinas on Being
• Author: Kenny
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780199279449
• ISBN: 0199279446
• ID: 04477863
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 258 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 163 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. February 2005

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