A History of Philosophy, Volume I (Frederick Copleston) - Paperback

A History of Philosophy, Vol. 1: Greece and Rome From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus is the first volume in a nine-volume set.  Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's work 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 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 filled with incident and  intellectual excitement -- and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a rounded manner and showing his links to those who went before and to those who came  after him.

• Author:  Frederick Copleston
• Format:  544 pages, paperback
  
• Publisher:  Image (1993)
  
• ISBN:  9780385468435