ENGLISH

History of Philosophy

By Frederick Copleston S.J.

Book information

Publisher
Image
Year
1993
ISBN
0385470436
Open Library ID
OL7439984M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8754120 bytes)
Volume
Volume 6
Pages
260\260
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34
Философские дисциплины;История философии;Copleston

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 acclaim as 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 exiatenceof 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. Copelston sets 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 went before and to those who came after them.

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