Frederick Charles Copleston
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 ofÂ Â 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.Â Â 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.
Philosophy,History,Reference,Nonfiction
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 4: Modern Philosophy, from Descartes to Leibnitz