A monumental history . . . learned, lucid, patient and comprehensive.''NEW STATESMAN''We can only applaud at the end of each act and look forward to applauding again at the final curtain.''TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTFrederick Copleston was Professor of the History of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Theology at London University. This eleven-volume work is one of the most remarkable single-handed scholarly enterprises of modern times. Brimming with detail and enthusiasm, A History of Philosophy gives an accessible account of philosophers from all eras and explains their works in relation to other philosophers. Each volume is an ideal guide for students studying specific eras and as a set offers a complete and unrivalled overview of the entire western philosophical tradition.Volume 3Late Medieval and Renaissance PhilosophyThis third volume of Copleston''s A Histor f Philosophy covers the fourteenth to the early-seventeenth centuries. In this important period there was the breaking of the link between philosophy and theology - beginning with the work of Ockham. As the growth of empirical science led to the philosophical explosion of the renaissance, the discovery and adventure in the physical world was reflected by the changes in philosophy. Bacon Bohme Bruno Machiavelli More Nicholas of Cusa Ockham Suarez>

Vorwort
This third volume of Copleston's A History of Philosophy covers the fourteenth to the early-seventeenth centuries.

Autorentext
Frederick Copleston was born in Somerset in 1907. After studying at Oxford, he held a number of academic posts, including Professor of the History of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at London University. He died in 1994.

Zusammenfassung
Copleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, and explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.