Frederick Copleston (1907–1994)

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1. Frederick Copleston

   Author of A History of Philosophy, Volume 9, A History of Philosophy (Book 3 : Volumes VII, VIII, IX), A History of Philosophy, Vol. 7, Part II : Modern Philosophy : Schopenhauer to Nietzsche

2. Jaroslav Pelikan

   Author of The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700), The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 5: Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture (since 1700), The riddle of Roman Catholicism

3. Etienne Gilson

   Author of God and Philosophy, Second edition, The Unity of Philosophical Experience, The Elements of Christian Philosophy

4. Alasdair MacIntyre

   Author of After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Second Edition, A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition

5. Immanuel Kant

   Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

6. St. Thomas Aquinas

   Author of Summa Theologica, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 2, Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 4

7. John Henry Newman

   Author of Apologia Pro Vita Sua, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, An Essay in Aid of a Grammar Of Assent

8. David Hume

   Author of A Treatise of Human Nature, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary

9. Saint Augustine

   Author of Confessions, City Of God, On Free Choice of the Will

10. Soren Kierkegaard

    Author of Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume II, Training in Christianity

11. Plato

    Author of Complete Works, The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters (Bollingen Series LXXI), Plato's Theory of Knowledge : The Theaetetus and the Sophist

12. Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury

    Author of Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics), St. Anselm Basic Writings: Proslogium, Mologium, Gaunilo's In Behalf of the Fool, Cur Deus Homo, Prayers and Meditations of St. Anselm with the Proslogion (Penguin Classics)

13. Aristotle

    Author of Nicomachean Ethics, The Basic Works of Aristotle

14. Alvin Plantinga

    Author of Warranted Christian Belief, The Nature of Necessity (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy), Warrant and Proper Function

15. Jacques Maritain

    Author of Man and the State, An introduction to philosophy, Existence and the Existent

16. Ernst Cassirer

    Author of An Essay on Man: An Introduction to a Philosophy of Human Culture, The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Philosophy, Rousseau, Kant and Goethe: Two Essays

17. Edwin A. Burtt

    Author of The English Philosophers from Bacon to Mill, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, Types of Religious Philosophy

18. Walter A. Kaufmann

    Author of Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, Critique of Religion and Philosophy, Tragedy and Philosophy

19. Martin Heidegger

    Author of Introduction to Metaphysics, Discourse on Thinking, Existence and Being

20. Alfred North Whitehead

    Author of Science and the Modern World, Process and Reality (Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Edinburgh During the Session 1927-28), The Concept of Nature