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
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 went before and to those who came
after him.
關於作者：
Frederick Copleston grew up in England 1907-1994. He was
raised in an Anglican home but converted to Catholicism while a
student at Marlborough College. He later became a Jesuit and then
pursued a career in academia. He studied and lectured at Heythrop
College and wrote an eleven-volume History of Philosophy,
which is highly respected. He also spent time teaching at Gregorian
University in Rome and, after he retired, lectured at Santa Clara
University in California. He was appointed a member of the British
Academy in 1970. He is famouse for debating Betrand Russell over
the existence of God in a 1948 BBC broadcast.
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