Of Men and Manners: Essays Historical and Philosophical

by Anthony Quinton and Anthony Kenny

This is a collection of writings by the late Lord Quinton, one of the wittiest and most versatile philosophers of his generation. The first part ranges over the last four hundred years of intellectual history, discussing such thinkers as Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Coleridge, Kant, Hegel, T. H. Green, Dewey, Quine, and Ayer. The subject of the second part of the volume is, broadly speaking, value in human society: Quinton discusses freedom, morality,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199694559
• ISBN13: 9780199694556
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"