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[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

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About Frederick Charles Copleston

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.