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Frederick Copleston'snine-volume set has received universal acclaim as the best history of philosophy in English. Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit, knew that seminary students'familiarity with most ofhistory'sgreat thinkers was limited to simplistic caricatures. Copleston set out to redress this situation b writing a complete history of Western philosophy, one crackling with incident and intellectual excitement and one that gives full place to each thinker, presenting his thought in a beautifully rounded manner and showing connections with his predecessors and later thinkers.This volume begins with the early Christian period and carries the history of mediaeval philosophy up to the end of the thirteenth century, including Duns Scotus(about 1265-1308).
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