Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Frederick Copleston, fully Frederick Charles Copleston

British Philosophy Professor, Author, Famous for A History in Philosophy, Royal Institute of Philosophy and in the Aristotelian Society, Jesuit Priest

"If our conscience tells us that we ought to perform a particular act, it is our moral duty to perform it."

"Other thinkers have philosophized since the time of Plato, but that does not destroy the interest and beauty of his philosophy."