Frederick Copleston
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Frederick Charles Copleston, (April 10, 1907, Taunton, Somerset, England – February 3, 1994, London, England) was a Jesuit priest and writer on philosophy.
Copleston converted to Roman Catholicism while a pupil at Marlborough College. He was author of an influential nine-volume History of Philosophy. He is well known for debating famed British thinker Bertrand Russell, in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast, on the existence of God, as well as analytic philosopher A. J. Ayer on logical positivism and the meaningfulness of religious language.
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"Even if the actual systems of philosophy which have appeared in the philosophical thought of a given culture are historically conditioned, there may be ways of thought exemplified by past systems which remain a feature of a people's mentality or cultural outlook."