A History of Philosophy VI

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'Copleston's volumes are still the place to start for anyone interested in following man's speculations about himself and his world."
—Washington Post Book World
A onceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's w nine-volume A History of Philosophy has Jourf ey^feti" beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim .as the best history of philosophy in English.
Copleston, ah'Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A.J. Ayer in a. fabled debate.-aboutthe 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... Tovább

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'Copleston's volumes are still the place to start for anyone interested in following man's speculations about himself and his world."
—Washington Post Book World
A onceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's w nine-volume A History of Philosophy has Jourf ey^feti" beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim .as the best history of philosophy in English.
Copleston, ah'Oxford Jesuit of immense erudition who once tangled with A.J. Ayer in a. fabled debate.-aboutthe 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 placerto each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully roundeB'manner and showing his Jinks to those who went before and to those who cajjie after him. a
The result of Copleston's prodigious labors is a history of pjiijasc^f phy that is unlikely ever to be surpassed. Thought magazinesumrfied Up the general agreement among scholars and students afike when it reviewed Copleston's A History of Philosophy as "broad-minded and-objective, comprehensive and scholarly, unified and Well proportioned We cannot recommend [it] too highly." Vissza