Analyzes British philosophical thought from Hobbes up to and including the Scottish philosophy of Common Sense.
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Conceived originally as a serious presentatin 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 an 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Conceived originally as a serious presentatin 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 an 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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 an 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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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This review is from: A History of Philosophy, Vol. 5: Modern Philosophy - The British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume (Paperback)
Copleston's series, "The History of Philosophy", is quite possibly the best introduction to the history of philosophical thought that has ever been published and certainly the best currently in print.
You will be hard pressed to find a better collection of solid philosophical surveys in one place. The beauty of the series is that Copleston has clearly done his research on each period and each thinker of Western philosophy. I cannot recommend this series any more highly. It is a must-have collection for anyone who is a scholar (professional or casual) of philosophy, theology or any of the arts. If this isn't on your bookshelf, it should be!
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Philosophy for All,
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This review is from: A History of Philosophy, Vol. 5: Modern Philosophy - The British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume (Paperback)
"A History of Philosophy" by Frederick Copleston,S.J., is a very complete work. All volumes, including #5 - Modern Philosophy The British philosophers from Hobbes to Hume, are first class. I recomend with emphasis!
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A good beginning series,
This review is from: History of Philosophy, Volume V: Hobbes to Hume (Hardcover)
This is series is a good way to get involved in the thought of the world. You'll want to go further than what is discussed in the book but it is a very good start.
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I. THOMAS HOBBES, author of one of the most celebrated political treatises in European literature, was born at Westport near Malmesbury in 1588. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phenomenalistic analysis, supporting accidents, percipient subject, violent motive, abstract general ideas, moral approbation, visible magnitude, insensible parts, philosophical relation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Concerning Body, Cambridge Platonists, Lord Herbert, Adam Smith, Philosophical Commentaries, Philosophy of the Human Mind, Dissertation of the Nature of Virtue, Essay Locke, Francis Bacon, Principles of Human Knowledge, Great Britain, Henry More, New Theory of Vision, Principles Berkeley, Samuel Clarke, System of Moral Philosophy, The Analogy of Religion, Thomas Aquinas, Christ Church, William of Orange, David Hume, Middle Ages, Ralph Cudworth, Richard Price, Three Dialogues New!
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I. THOMAS HOBBES, author of one of the most celebrated political treatises in European literature, was born at Westport near Malmesbury in 1588. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
phenomenalistic analysis, supporting accidents, percipient subject, violent motive, abstract general ideas, moral approbation, visible magnitude, insensible parts, philosophical relation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Concerning Body, Cambridge Platonists, Lord Herbert, Adam Smith, Philosophical Commentaries, Philosophy of the Human Mind, Dissertation of the Nature of Virtue, Essay Locke, Francis Bacon, Principles of Human Knowledge, Great Britain, Henry More, New Theory of Vision, Principles Berkeley, Samuel Clarke, System of Moral Philosophy, The Analogy of Religion, Thomas Aquinas, Christ Church, William of Orange, David Hume, Middle Ages, Ralph Cudworth, Richard Price, Three Dialogues New!
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- The Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley on 7 pages
- The True Intellectual System of the Universe Part Two by Ralph Cudworth on 6 pages
- System of Moral Philosophy (Continuum Classic Texts) by Francis Hutcheson on 5 pages
- The Analogy of Religion by Joseph Butler on 5 pages
- A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume on 5 pages
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