Frederick Copleston's A History of Philosophy - good?

[lukasecho]

I was thinking of dipping into some of Copleston's volumes to fill in some gaps - is it a reasonable substititute to fill in gaps without reading the primary texts? say for Malebranche or Leibniz? or the whole Scholastics period?

A History of Philosophy is an eleven-volume history of Western philosophy written by English Jesuit priest Frederick Charles Copleston

[Impenitent]

you can be familiar with someone's summary of someone else's work, someone's translation of someone else's work or you can be familiar with the work itself...

-Imp

[tbieter]

Cop is good, but read the greats in primary. Cop's memoir is a bore.

[Breath]

I was thinking of dipping into some of Copleston's volumes to fill in some gaps - is it a reasonable substititute to fill in gaps without reading the primary texts? say for Malebranche or Leibniz? or the whole Scholastics period?

A History of Philosophy is an eleven-volume history of Western philosophy written by English Jesuit priest Frederick Charles Copleston

Copleston was a Jesuit, and that is readily apparent in his work. The title of his magnum opus is a bit of a misnomer, because as far as Freddie was concerned, only Western philosophy counts as philosophy. Nevertheless, his History of Philosophy is a great work, written by someone who clearly understands the development of "western" thinking.

Breath