Aquinas at Oxford

In the first volume of his history of ethics, Terence Irwin gievs a chapter to Plato, four to Aristotle, but nine to Aquinas. Reviewing the book in the TLS , Anthony Kenny says that Aquinas “emerges as the hero of the entire volume,” and, after noting that Irwin holds a chair of ancient philosophy at Oxford, notes “there have been some changes in that university since the days of A. J. Ayer, J. L. Austin, and Irwin’s predecessor, G. E. L. Owen.”

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