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Copleston, Frederick C. (Frederick Charles), 1907-1994

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Dates

  • Existence: 1904 - 1994

Biographical Note

An English Jesuit philosopher, Frederick Charles Copleston was born in Taunton, Somerset, England in 1904. Copleston attended Marlborough College (1920) and was received into the Catholic Church in 1925. After studying at St. John's College, Oxford, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1930. He was ordained priest in 1937. He taught and wrote extensively on philosophical subjects.

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