History of Philosophy (6. vols.)

Type
Book
ISBN 10
0855321814 
ISBN 13
9780855321819 
Category
History of Philosophy  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1946 
Publisher
Volume
I-VI 
Description
A History of Philosophy is an eleven-volume history of Western philosophy written by the English Jesuit priest Frederick Charles Copleston.

The work provides extensive coverage of Western philosophy from the Pre-Socratics through John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The first nine volumes, originally published between 1946 and 1974, were written for Catholic seminary students with the goal "of supplying Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries with a work that should be somewhat more detailed and of wider scope than the textbooks, commonly in use, and which at the same time should endeavour to exhibit the logical development and interconnection of philosophical systems." A tenth volume was added in 1986, and the eleventh is actually a collection of essays which appeared in 1956 as Contemporary Philosophy.

Throughout the eleven volumes Copleston's Roman Catholic (Thomist) point of view is never hidden. 
Biblio Notes
The following is a summary of contents (not a full table of contents):

Volume 1: Greece and Rome
Pre-Socratic philosophy
The Socratic period
Plato
Aristotle
Post-Aristotelian philosophy

Volume 2: Augustine to Scotus
Pre-mediaeval Influences (including St. Augustine)
The Carolingian Renaissance
The Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Centuries
Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
The Thirteenth Century (including St. Bonaventure, St. Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus)

Volume 3: Ockham to Suarez
The Fourteenth Century (including William of Ockham)
Philosophy of the Renaissance (including Francis Bacon)
Scholasticism of the Renaissance (including Francisco Suárez)

Volume 4: Descartes to Leibniz
René Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Nicolas Malebranche
Baruch Spinoza
Gottfried Leibniz

Volume 5: Hobbes to Hume
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Isaac Newton
George Berkeley
David Hume

Volume 6: Wolff to Kant
The French Enlightenment (including Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
The German Enlightenment
The Rise of the Philosophy of History (including Giambattista Vico and Voltaire)
Christian Wolff
Immanuel Kant

We miss volumes VII, VIII and IX.  
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