| The Unknown God: Agnostic Essays Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kenny, Anthony (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826476341 ISBN-13: 9780826476340 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2005 Annotation: Kenny, a philosopher by profession, struggles with the intellectual problems of theism and the possibility of believing in God, especially in an intellectual climate dominated by Logical Positivism. Here he revisits the Five Ways of Aquinas and argues that they are not so much proofs as definitions of God. He is also in constant dialogue with Wittgenstein for, Kenny writes, no man in recent years has surpassed him in devotion of sharp intelligence to the demarcation of the boundary between sense and nonsense. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Agnosticism |
| Dewey: 149.72 |
| Series: Continuum Compact S |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.1" W x 7.8" (0.56 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kenny, a philosopher by profession, struggles with the intellectual problems of theism and the possibility of believing in god, especially in an intellectual climate dominated by Logical Positivism. Here he revisits the Five Ways of Aquinas and argues that they are not so much proofs as definitions of God. He is also in constant dialogue with Wittgenstein for, Kenny writes, no man in recent years has surpassed him in devotion of sharp intelligence to the demarcation of the boundary between sense and nonsense. |