Frederick Copleston (1907–1994)
Auteur de A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1 : Greece and Rome : From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus
A propos de l'auteur
Born in Taunton, England, Frederick Copleston received his M.A. from Oxford University and his Ph.D. from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1930 and became an ordained priest in 1937. Throughout his academic career, he remained committed to his Roman afficher plus Catholic faith, apparent in his writing and his treatment of philosophical issues. Focusing primarily on the history of philosophy, Copleston taught at various universities in England, Italy, and the United States. His published work includes individual volumes on such major philosophers as Friedrich Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. He also has written books devoted to particular movements, including logical positivism and existentialism, and has written on particular issues, including the relation of religion to philosophy and the relation of philosophy to culture. Sometimes he has concentrated his attention on specific geographical or social regions; his Philosophy in Russia (1988) reflects this latter approach. Not only has Copleston published numerous monographs, but also his writing has been excerpted and collected in everything from texts of introductory readings to volumes of essays about specialized, technical philosophical issues. Earlier in his career, Copleston sometimes found himself pitted in popular public debates against a famous advocate of atheism, Bertrand Russell. Among beginning philosophers and veterans alike, however, Copleston's most important academic contribution will remain his nine-volume History of Philosophy (1946--74). In his attempt to span the full sweep of Western philosophical development, Copleston starts with the pre-Socratics. In each volume, he devotes several hundred pages to a particular epoch in the history of Western philosophy, explaining dominant, representative figures as well as significant movements and covering each period and line of thought. Generally, Copleston tries to reproduce the actual pattern of argument expressed in the writings of major philosophical figures, offering critical insights throughout the course of his exposition. Copleston's final volume brings his coverage of Western philosophy up through the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre. Copleston's discussions are fair, balanced, and faithful to the original text. His interpretations provide a standard, mainstream understanding of the growth of Western philosophy. Because his understanding of the history of philosophy has been so widely respected for so long, even more advanced philosophers often find themselves checking their grasp of major figures or movements by reference to Copleston's work. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Frederick Copleston
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1 : Greece and Rome : From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus (1946) 1,133 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 4 : Modern Philosophy : From Descartes to Leibnitz (1958) 838 exemplaires
Histoire de la philosophie : 'the History of philosophy'. 3. La Renaissance (1953) 714 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 6 : Modern Philosophy : From the French Enlightenment to Kant (1960) 585 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 7 : Modern Philosophy : From the Post-Kantian Idealists to Marx, Kierkegaard, and… (1963) 576 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 5 : Modern Philosophy : The British Philosophers from Hobbes to Hume (1959) 560 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 8 : Modern Philosophy : Empiricism, Idealism, and Pragmatism in Britain and America (1966) 492 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 9 : Modern Philosophy : From the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss (1975) 482 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 2, Part I : Mediaeval Philosophy : Augustine to Bonaventure (1950) 249 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy Medieval Volume 2 Part II Albert the Great to Duns Scotus (1950) 229 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 7, Part II : Modern Philosophy : Schopenhauer to Nietzsche (1962) 183 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 5, Part II : Modern Philosophy : The British Philosophers : Berkeley to Hume (1959) 183 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 5, Part I : Modern Philosophy : The British Philosophers : Hobbes to Paley (1957) 181 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 7, Part I : Modern Philosophy : Fichte to Hegel (1963) 181 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 3, Part I : Late Mediaeval and Renaissance Philosophy : Ockham to the Speculative Mystics (1953) 174 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 3, Part II : Late Mediaeval and Renaissance Philosophy : The Revival of Platonism to… (1960) 165 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 6, Part I : Modern Philosophy : The French Enlightenment to Kant (1960) 143 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 8, Part II : Modern Philosophy : Bentham to Russell : Idealism in America, The Pragmatist… (1966) 143 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 8, Part I : Modern Philosophy : Bentham to Russell : British Empiricism and the Idealist… (1966) 131 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 9, Part I : Maine de Biran to Sartre : The Revolution to Henri Bergson (1977) 53 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy, Vol. 9, Part II : Maine de Biran to Sartre : Bergson to Sartre (1977) 51 exemplaires
Historia de la filosofía : Vol. 1 Grecia y Roma / Frederick Copleston ; traducción de Juan Manuel García de la Mora,… 3 exemplaires
History of Philosophy, Pt. 1 3 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy: Greece & Rome (Vol 1, Parts 1 & 2); Mediaeval Philosophy (Vol 2, Part 1: Augustine to… 2 exemplaires
A History of Philosophy: Vol. 1 Parts 1 & 2, Vol. 2 Parts 1 & 2, Vol. 3 Parts 1 & 2, Vol 4, Vol. 5 parts 1 & 2, Vol 6… (1962) 2 exemplaires
Existentialism and modern man : a paper read to the Aquinas Society of London on 14th April, 1948 2 exemplaires
History of Philosophy: Mediaeval Philosophy, Volume II, Part II - Albert the Great to Scotus 1 exemplaire
Complete Set: A History of Philosophy by Frederick Copleston (A History of Philosophy in 9 Volumes) 1 exemplaire
Historia de la filosofía: Vol. VIII De Bentham a Russell / Frederick Copleston ; traducción de Juan Manuel García de… 1 exemplaire
Historia de la filosofía: Vol. III De Ockham a Suarez / Frederick Copleston ; traducción de Juan Manuel García de la… 1 exemplaire
Frederick Charles Copleston 1 exemplaire
A History of Philosophy, Vol I & II 1 exemplaire
2: Filosofie contemporanee e problemi di didattica 1 exemplaire
Uma História da Filosofia: do Utilitarismo a Sartre 1 exemplaire
History Of Philosophy Vol. 1 1 exemplaire
History Of Philosophy Vol. 2 1 exemplaire
History Of Philosophy Vol. 3 1 exemplaire
A History of Philosophy Volumes 5 - 6 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Great Philosophers: An Introduction to Western Philosophy (1987) — Contributeur — 427 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Copleston, Frederick
- Nom légal
- Copleston, Frederick Charles
- Autres noms
- Copleston, F. C.
Copleston, Freddie - Date de naissance
- 1907-05-10
- Date de décès
- 1994-02-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Taunton, Somerset, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- St Thomas' Hospital, London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Marlborough College (1920-1925)
Heythrop College
St John's College, University of Oxford (BA|1929)
Pontifical Gregorian University (Ph.D) - Professions
- Jesuit priest
philosopher
historian of philosophy
professor - Organisations
- Society of Jesus (1930, ordained 1938)
University of Santa Clara
University of London - Prix et distinctions
- Fellow of the British Academy (1970)
Personal Professorship, Heythrop College (1972)
Honorary Fellow, St John's College, Oxford (1975)
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1993)
Honorary Doctorate, Santa Clara University, California
Honorary Doctorate, University of St Andrews - Courte biographie
- [Source: Wikipedia] Frederick Charles Copleston was raised in the Anglican faith—his uncle, Reginald Stephen Copleston, was an Anglican bishop of Calcutta. At the age of eighteen, he converted to the Roman Catholic faith, which caused great stress within his family.
In 1930, Copleston became a Jesuit. After studying at the Jesuit novitiate in Roehampton for two years, he resettled at Heythrop, where in 1937 he was ordained a Jesuit priest at Heythrop College. In 1938 he traveled to Germany to complete his training, returning to Britain just before the outbreak of war in 1939. Copleston originally intended to study for his doctorate at the Gregorian University in Rome, but the war now made that impossible. Instead, he accepted an offer to return to Heythrop College to teach the history of philosophy to the few remaining Jesuits there. Copleston achieved a degree of popularity in the media for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.
Throughout the rest of his academic career, Copleston accepted a number of honorary roles, including Visiting Professor at Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he spent six months each year lecturing from 1952 to 1968.
After officially retiring in 1974, he continued to lecture. From 1974 to 1982, Copleston was Visiting Professor at the University of Santa Clara, and from 1979 to 1981, he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, which were published as Religion and the One. Copleston was offered memberships in the Royal Institute of Philosophy and in the Aristotelian Society.
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