tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post7306696773675137062..comments2023-08-14T22:40:14.605-10:00Comments on Philosophy Metablog: Bertrand Russell - Founding Giant of Analytic Philosophy - Vol. 1 (Pilos Profiles)Tristan Hazehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18008340011384137776noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-57594599185153330102016-03-05T16:38:17.820-10:002016-03-05T16:38:17.820-10:00Yes! Yes! Philosophy never loses its attraction.
...Yes! Yes! Philosophy never loses its attraction.<br /><br />I googled and found evidence of a correlation between obsessive-compulsive disorder (the Wittgenstein disease?) and risk aversion!<br /><br />Then I googled a second time and found an article that said risk averse individuals tend to be unkind! Yes. Then I googled a third time and won't tell you what I found so as not to jinx anyone reading this. (It was about employment.) <br /><br />I won't do anything else all summer till I find whether these things are true. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-68087104340668721352016-02-28T23:55:58.775-10:002016-02-28T23:55:58.775-10:00I think it's really interesting and uimportant...I think it's really interesting and uimportant for philosophers to define and clarify their terms.<br /><br />I agree with this idea about doubts and I'm sure wittgenstein did too. <br /><br />I think philosophers are obsessivbes but we jhave to learn more about what we mean when we say "TYruth" or "reality" etc. So the jury's basically out till we get that.<br /><br />I;m bssesssed with philosophy and think about it almost every day!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-69559535137187276522016-02-28T12:15:07.533-10:002016-02-28T12:15:07.533-10:00Whoever said that you should tell them even greate...Whoever said that you should tell them even greater philosophy comes when you can live with doubt.<br /><br />Or, I don't know. What do you think? If it's the first I think that's sort of like saying great philosophers are just obsessives and nothing more. I'm not sure how to make a cartoon out of the second so therefore maybe it's the true one. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-36813493699692008262016-02-27T00:00:29.677-10:002016-02-27T00:00:29.677-10:00'Great philosophy begins with the quest for ce...'Great philosophy begins with the quest for certainty in the face of doubt' - Uknown<br />This is a motto Russell could have lived by all his life. He had many wives and mistresses, but he never stopped thinking about the big questions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-50440487137170043092016-02-25T19:16:46.216-10:002016-02-25T19:16:46.216-10:00'he does have a connection to the Vedanta'...'he does have a connection to the Vedanta'<br />Thanks for this. I am working on this right now. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-35362544858655123602016-02-25T19:04:34.122-10:002016-02-25T19:04:34.122-10:00I believe I have discovered independently a number...I believe I have discovered independently a number of things discovered by Bertrand Russell -- or close analogues. In high school I came up with the essentially the famous tripartite analysis of sentences containing definite descriptions (I called them 'property-based names') - Russell's "Theory of Descriptions". I also developed my own conception of how a man may worship mathematics and the good things in life freely from authority. In my home country, no one had heard about these things, but when I came to South Africa I learned about Russell and was both amazed and encourage - there has to be something to these ideas.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-34661973470891860802016-02-24T22:09:11.161-10:002016-02-24T22:09:11.161-10:00When I read Russell"leaves room in his philos...When I read Russell"leaves room in his philosophy for mystical elements" I thought "ooh no no no no no no no. Russell would hate that. Think of how he bemoaned the Inca kings who (at least in Russell's fictional history) sacrificed virgins. But then I remembered that he does have a connection to the Vedanta somehow or other. In and around Huxley's buddies, right? But usually I just read On Denoting. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-89766245445174587972016-02-24T14:36:31.527-10:002016-02-24T14:36:31.527-10:00This is really interesting. There is a lot of new ...This is really interesting. There is a lot of new research on the horizon about Russell's philosophical inheritance; a lot of people think of him as a lapsed Hegelian, but really it's slowly becoming clear that he owes a lot to the British empiricist tradition of Locke, Hume and Mill. I'm preparing an edited volume for a press on this right now. I guess this is optimistic but we're hoping it will be out in 2019!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-2227244969429669052016-02-24T03:52:13.061-10:002016-02-24T03:52:13.061-10:00Russell is often maligned these days - or rather, ...Russell is often maligned these days - or rather, people acknowledge his historical prominence but don't read him and engage with him enough. It's as if we think we've absorbed all the good stuff. Engaging with his philosophy is a curious thing - there's something colorless about it all, but that's maybe what makes it so great, and we need to come alive to it again. I really don't know. Thanks for this post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-73517675016952019752016-02-23T19:47:35.415-10:002016-02-23T19:47:35.415-10:00Thanks for this. Fun anecdote: an American lecture...Thanks for this. Fun anecdote: an American lecturer once watched Russell board a plane - he had a bottle of whisky in his bag and revealed it to the lecturer with a wink!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046242122963537690.post-42482063944756838562016-02-23T16:45:25.823-10:002016-02-23T16:45:25.823-10:00i love how bertram leaves room in his philosophy f...i love how bertram leaves room in his philosophy for mystical elements even though he's such a logical thinkerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com