Late Mediaeval and Renaissance Philosophy (v.3) - Couverture souple

Copleston, Frederick C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0385016328 ISBN 13 : 9780385016322

Editeur : Doubleday, 1977

Synopsis

Book by Copleston Frederick

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

The result of Copleston's prodigious labors is a history of philosophy that is unlikely ever to be surpassed. Thought magazine summed up the general agreement among scholars and students alike 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."

Biographie de l'auteur

Frederick Copleston was born in Somerset in 1907. After studying at Oxford, he held a number of academic posts, including Professor of the History of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at London University. He died in 1994.'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Doubleday
• Date d'édition: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0385016328
• ISBN 13: 9780385016322
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible