Ebook: From Plato to Wittgenstein: essays by G.E.M. Anscombe

Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Dedication; Preface; Body Matter; Part 1. Ancient, Medieval & Modern; 1. The Origin of Plato's Theory of Forms; 2. On Piety, or: Plato's Euthyphro; 3. Plato, Soul and 'the Unity of Apperception'; 8. Anselm and the Unity of Truth; 9. How can a man be free? Spinoza's thought and that of some others; 10. Hume on Causality: Introductory; Part 2. Recent and Contemporary; 11. Frege, Wittgenstein and Platonism; 12. On Russell's Theory of Descriptions; 13. Ludwig Wittgenstein; 14. The simplicity of the Tractatus.;In 2005 St Andrews Studies published a volume of essays by Anscombe entitled Human Life, Action and Ethics, followed in 2008 by a second with the title Faith in a Hard Ground. Both books were highly praised. This third volume brings essays on the thought of historical philosophers in which Anscombe engages directly with their ideas and arguments. Many are published here for the first time and the collection provides further testimony to Anscombe's insight and intellectual imagination.