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<p>Conceived originally as a serious presentation of&nbsp;the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume&nbsp;<i>A History Of Philosophy</i> has&nbsp;journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as the best history of&nbsp;philosophy in English.</p> <p>Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit&nbsp;of immense erudition who once tangled with A. J. Ayer in a fabled debate about the existence of God&nbsp;and the possibility of metaphysics, knew that&nbsp;seminary students were fed a woefully inadequate diet&nbsp;of theses and proofs, and that their familiarity&nbsp;with most of history's great thinkers was reduced&nbsp;to simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to&nbsp;redress the wrong by writing a complete history of&nbsp;Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and&nbsp;intellectual excitement — and one that gives full&nbsp;place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a&nbsp;beautifully rounded manner and showing his links&nbsp;to those who went before and to those who came&nbsp;after him.</p> <p>The result of Copleston's prodigious labors is a history of philosophy that is unlikely ever to be surpassed.

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Author

Frederick Charles Copleston

Publisher

Image Books

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385470452

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Reference, Philosophy

Rating

4.05 / 5 (1,202 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14