Frederick Charles Copleston Quotes

Everyone who doubts knows that he is doubting, so that he is certain of this truth at least, namely the fact that he doubts. Thus every one who doubts whether there is such a thing as truth, knows at...

Everyone who doubts knows that he is doubting, so that he is certain of this truth at least, namely the fact that he doubts. Thus every one who doubts whether there is such a thing as truth, knows at...

Frederick Charles Copleston

Tags: doubt, skepticism, truth

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

Frederick Charles Copleston

[O]ther thinkers have philosophised since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy

Frederick Charles Copleston

Tags: plato

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Frederick Charles Copleston (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was an English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–75).
Copleston achieved a degree of popularity in the media for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast; the following year he debated logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language with his friend the analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer.