Frederick Copleston

Frederick Charles Copleston ( born April 10, 1907 in Taunton, Somerset, England; † February 3, 1994 in London, England ) was a British philosopher and Jesuit priest who has written one in the Anglo-Saxon world very distinguished history of philosophy in nine volumes.

Life

Copleston grew up in an Anglican family ( his uncle, Reginald Stephen Copleston, Bishop of Calcutta), but he converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1930 and entered the Society of Jesus in. He also taught at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Santa Clara University in California. Between 1946 and 1975 he published an extensive history of philosophy that reveals the religious background of the author, but also in the treatment of opposing philosophical views as extremely fair applies.

In 1948 he discussed in a BBC program with Bertrand Russell on God's existence.

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

Writings

• A History of Philosophy, IMAGE BOOKS 1993-1994 (with two supplementary volumes )

• Aquinas. Penguin, 1955.