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History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)

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I first read this as a young man in the early 50's and it has informed my thinking more than I can describe. Perhaps, in another life, I will have time to read one or two of them and see if my attitude changes. And then he goes over the centuries digging up inconsistencies within the thinking frameworks being discussed.

Na verdade, existem domínios em que esta forma de inquirir faz sentido, contudo não é passível de se poder aplicar a toda a realidade, menos ainda quando entramos na órbita da definição do ser-humano.

This is very definitely an introduction, a guide, a setting of the development of philosophy through a string of individuals and schools, rather than a thorough examination of any particular one of them. Social cohesion is a necessity, and mankind has never yet succeeded in enforcing cohesion by merely rational arguments. Similarly, Heidegger is a glaringly absent in Russell's account, as he refused to admit that there was any seriousness to Heidegger's thought. Ainda assim, o trabalho realizado por Russell é imensamente detalhado, mais ainda se tivermos em atenção que foi feito sem recurso à internet que hoje a tudo dá acesso imediatamente, e num tempo de segunda guerra mundial. Sometimes one needs to be obscure because what you are trying to say does not allow you to be immediately clear.

This 895-pager (including the index), could alternatively have been titled, just as fittingly, and perhaps even more accurately, "Bertrand Russell's Opinions of Western Philosophers". Russell is quick to dismiss all religious thinkers as absurd (which isn't that far off the mark), but also treats Nietzsche with supreme cruelty as Nietzsche was a thinker that broke from the Enlightenment tradition and refused to play with numbers. There are, however, a number of allusions to him in Aristotle, and it seems incredible that these (which include textual quotations) would have occurred if he had been merely a myth. Desde logo, os racionalistas assumem que tudo tem de ter uma lógica, que tudo tem de ter uma causa, que o conhecimento se constrói à imagem de uma equação matemática que tudo pode explicar. Savet je odličan, ali mislim da se više odnosi na na primer Hegelovu Istoriju filozofije nego na ovu "malu" pristrasnu istoriju filozofije Bertranda Rasela.

This empirical tradition was updated by David Hume, who made empiricism consistent, and consequently fell into radical skepticism.

This has been a struggle between people seeking the oppression of society and consequently the flourishing of 'heroes' and/or 'nobility' and people seeking to liberate society and let individual human beings flourish.C. Grayling, "Almost all those who reviewed Russell's now famous History of Western Philosophy when it first appeared in 1945 were agreed about two things: first, that it is beautifully written, witty, clear, lucid and magisterial; and second, that it is not always accurate in its account of the thinkers it covers, nor always fair to them.

I just chose the one I did since I am a Christian, and his biases stood out especially in his criticisms of Christianity. The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. Justice requires that the first step towards a settlement must be an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied in June, 1967. I'd be quite interested to hear Bertrand Russell's thoughts on the past 65 years; I did stumble upon his remarkable final statement, written two days before his death at age 97, which shows him putting his formidable powers of rationality to work in succinctly and accurately assessing the nature of the Middle East conflict.This mentality - which really more suits a lawyer than a seeker of truth - smothers intellectual growth, and it was only in the Renaissance - when Stoic and Platonic texts entered Europe again (via Arabic translations) - that new insights started to develop. In the second volume, Russell describes how Catholic philosophy developed throughout the Middle Ages. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

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