Anthony Kenny
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Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny is a British philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary estate he is an executor.
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There is no reason why someone who is in doubt about the existence of God should not pray for help and guidance on this topic as in other matters.
The God of the Philosophers (1979), p. 129
[T]he Five Ways fail […] principally because it is much more difficult than at first appears to separate them from their background in medieval cosmology.
The Five Ways: St. Thomas Aquinas' Proofs of God's Exustence, New York: Routledge (2003), pp. 3-4
The predicate of a sentence may tell you what kind of a thing something is, or how big it is, or where it is, or what is happening to it, and so on.
Aquinas on Being (2002), pp. 2-3
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Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny is a British philosopher whose interests lie in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary estate he is an executor. With Peter Geach, he has made a significant contribution to analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the style of analytic philosophy. He is a former president of the British Academy and the Royal Institute of Philosophy.
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