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 of history's great 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 present volume begins with the Pre-Socratic Philosophy period and Aristotle up to the end of the Post-Aristotelian Philosophy, including Plato.
