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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

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

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

lukasecho wrote: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