13 Facts About Frederick Copleston

Frederick Copleston was educated at Marlborough College from 1920 to 1925.

Frederick Copleston explained his recognition of the objective authority in the Catholic Church:.

Frederick Copleston graduated from Oxford University in 1929 having managed a third in classical moderations and a good second at Greats.

Frederick Copleston was originally destined to study for his doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, but the war now made that impossible.

From this time onwards, Frederick Copleston began writing his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy, a textbook that presents clear accounts of ancient, medieval, and modern philosophy.

Still highly respected, Frederick Copleston's history has been described as "a monumental achievement" that "stays true to the authors it discusses, being very much a work in exposition".

Frederick Copleston achieved a degree of popularity in the media for debating the existence of God with Bertrand Russell in a celebrated 1948 BBC broadcast.

Frederick Copleston became the new college's respected principal and gave undergraduate courses.

From 1974 to 1982, Frederick Copleston was visiting professor at the University of Santa Clara, California, and from 1979 to 1981, he delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, which were published as Religion and the One.

Toward the end of his life, Frederick Copleston received honorary doctorates from a number of institutions, including Santa Clara University, California, Uppsala University, and the University of St Andrews.

Frederick Copleston was offered memberships in the Royal Institute of Philosophy and in the Aristotelian Society.

Father Frederick Copleston died on 3 February 1994 at St Thomas' Hospital in London, at the age of 86.

Frederick Copleston attempted to clarify Aquinas's Five Ways by making a distinction between in fieri causes and in esse causes.