Dr Tony Carroll: Copleston’s History of Philosophy as Ignatian Humanism

Parallel paper presented at the Heythrop Summer Conference, 'Let Him Easter in Us', 6th July 2018.
In this session, I will consider the work of the Jesuit historian of philosophy and first principal of Heythrop College as a constituent college of the University of London, Frederick C. Copleston. His multi-volume A History of Philosophy is still one of the standard reference works in the history of philosophy and represents an intellectual example of the spirit of Ignatian Humanism, which first motivated the apostolic endeavours of the Jesuit order. Founded in a European culture of Renaissance Humanism, the Jesuit order developed its own way of discovering the workings of the Holy Spirit through this cultural framework. Frederick C. Copleston’s work in the history of philosophy represents one such way in which the discernment of the movements of the Holy Spirit was pursued in the so-called “Intellectual Apostolate” of the British Province of the Society of Jesus.

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The essens of God in/con-sists in his own Negation, in his Not-being.

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@Anonymous Stranger God's essence consists in negation of this same essence. Neither being, nor none being, nor becoming is the attribute of God. Only unbecoming is real, as evil.