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History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)

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It is a book that examines philosophical questions and it does not take an historical approach to the subject. Russell is consistently opinionated throughout his presentation and it might confuse some of the readers that he is so casual in writing off some of the major philosophers and their key ideas. Ou seja, a sua filosofia analítica não comporta espaço para uma análise contextualizada pelo tempo em que as ideias foram produzidas, interessado apenas no como se comportam essas ideias quando passadas pelo filtro da lógica atual. Granted, Russell examines each thinker in their socio-historical perspective, but he fails to give credit to the work and creativity of the thinkers as ends in themselves, not particles of a universal human project.

Most of his critiques against many of the arguments for God's existence would, if you're familiar with the contemporary scene, be whittled away in a matter of minutes. Every community is exposed to two opposite dangers, ossification through too much discipline and reverence for tradition, on the one hand; on the other hand, dissolution, or subjection to foreign conquest, through the growth of an individualism and personal independence that makes co-operation impossible.The indications on the inside cover was that he read it in Finland in 1959 - I think he once missed a train there and the next one wasn't for a week. All supposed knowledge is based on induction and causation; causation being nothing more than association and induction being nothing more than making universal (i. Except the print is so tiny that I can't be bothered to make the effort to read it most of the time.

So little is known of him [Leucippus] that Epicurus (a later follower of Democritus) was thought to have denied his existence all together, and some moderns have revived this theory. Repare-se que aquilo que Russell apresenta e aquilo que ignora não é fruto de falta de espaço, Russell chega a dedicar um capítulo a Byron, um poeta. I once received my lowest mark in my degree for saying pretty much what Russell says here about his mate Dewey - I am rather proud of the fact that I've only discovered our shared view now - twenty years later. Yet, when Russell reaches what, to me, is the important period of Philosophy, namely the modern period from the Rennaisance till the present, I find that Russell's analysis of each philosopher begins to grow shallower, leading not to a decent caricature or snapshot of the work in question, but more to a wholly unfair criticism of all those Russell finds himself at odds with. But where it is useful to have his bias is that you can get a glimpse into the mind of atheistic thinking.In 1950 he was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1950 for his extensive contributions to world literature and for his "rationality and humanity, as a fearless champion of free speech and free thought in the West. Russell's discussion of Socrates and his relationship to Plato is worth reading the book on its own. Similarly, Heidegger is a glaringly absent in Russell's account, as he refused to admit that there was any seriousness to Heidegger's thought. Full title: History of Western Philosophy, and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances From the Earliest Times to the Present Day. The refugees who surround Palestine in their hundreds of thousands were described recently by the Washington journalist I.

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