Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Anthony John Patrick Kenny

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British philosopher Anthony John Patrick Kenny.
Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Anthony John Patrick Kenny

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.

[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul. — © Anthony John Patrick Kenny
[To Aquinas] the intellect [stands] at the summit of ... the human soul.
A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.
[To Aquinas] the senses are what we have in common with dumb animals. ... Our better part [is] the mind ... and [its] intellectual contemplation.
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