Frederick Copleston

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Frederick Copleston

Frederick Charles Copleston (born April 10, 1907 in Taunton , Somerset , England , † February 3, 1994 in London , England) was a British Jesuit and philosopher who wrote a history of philosophy in nine volumes, which is very respected in the Anglo-Saxon world.

Life

Copleston grew up in an Anglican family (his uncle, Reginald Stephen Copleston, was Bishop of Calcutta), but he converted to the Roman Catholic Church and joined the Society of Jesus in 1930 . He has taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and Santa Clara University in California , among others . Between 1946 and 1975 he published an extensive history of philosophy, which shows the author's background of belief, but is also considered to be extremely fair in the treatment of opposing philosophical views.

In 1948 he discussed the existence of God with Bertrand Russell on an often quoted BBC broadcast . He represented the Leibniz - Clark version of the cosmological proof of God , which Russell encounters with a fundamental criticism of the term "necessary existence".

Copleston was admitted to the British Academy in 1970 and received the CBE in 1993 .

Fonts

  • A History of Philosophy , IMAGE BOOKS 1993-1994 (with two supplementary volumes)
  1. Greece and Rome: From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus
  2. Medieval Philosophy: From Augustine to Duns Scotus
  3. Late Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy: Ockham, Francis Bacon, and the Beginning of the Modern World
  4. Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Leibnitz
  5. Modern Philosophy: The British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume
  6. Modern Philosophy: From the French Enlightenment to Kant
  7. Modern Philosophy: From the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche
  8. Modern Philosophy: Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America
  9. Modern Philosophy: From the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss
  10. Russian Philosophy
  11. Logical Positivism and Existentialism
  • Aquinas . Penguin, 1955.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ms. Copleston vs. Bertrand Russell: The Famous 1948 BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God , last accessed November 30, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Copleston, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Copleston, Frederick Charles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British religious and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Taunton , Somerset , England
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1994
Place of death London