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A History of Philosophy, Vol. 4: Modern Philosophy From Descartes to Leibniz

By Frederick C. Copleston

Book information

Publisher
Image
Year
1993
ISBN
038547041X, 9780385470414
Open Library ID
OL7439982M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7179732 bytes)
Volume
4
Pages
384\384
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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

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