Father Frederick Copleston's monumental History of Philosophy is firmly established as a standard work surpassing in scale any general history of Western philosophy available in English.
This fifth volume of the series covers the whole scope of British philosophy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the main discussion is concerned with the giants of that period--Hobbes, Locke, Berkely and Hume--other movements of far-reaching significance receive extensive treatment, among them the Cambridge Platonists, Ethicists such as Shaftesbury, Mandeville, and Paley, the Deists, and the Scottish philosophers of common sense who succeeded Hume.
As in his past volumes, Father Copleston displays an ever-present awareness of the continuity in the history of philosophy and he presents cogent insights into the influences which varied philosophers of this period exerted on one another.
Although complete in itself, this Image Books edition of Modern Philosophy: The British Philosophers is also an integral part of Father Copleston's multi-volume A History of Philosophy.
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"This magnificent effort to probe man's quest for reality...states many of the problems which still face us." --The Commonweal
About the Author
Frederick Copleston was born in Somerset in 1907. After studying at Oxford, he held a number of academic posts, including Professor of the History of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at London University. He died in 1994.
