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1931–2026 England

Sir Anthony John Patrick Kenny (16 March 1931 – 3 August 2026) was a British philosopher whose interests lied in the philosophy of mind, ancient and scholastic philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of Wittgenstein of whose literary estate he was an executor. With Peter Geach, he made a significant contribution to analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St.

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Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is known.

What I Believe (2006)

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. Some find something comic in the idea of an agnostic praying to a God whose existence he doubts. It is surely no more unreasonable than the act of a man adrift in the ocean, trapped if a cave, or stranded on a mountainside, who cries for help though he may never be heard or fires a signal which may never be seen.

The God of the Philosophers (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anthony Kenny (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.