History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)

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But where it is useful to have his bias is that you can get a glimpse into the mind of atheistic thinking. Nietzsche created an imaginary Ubermensch as wishful thinking; Hitler tried to copy the idea and killed millions of peoples. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate? Clergy and secular authorities engaged in a struggle throughout the middle ages for ascendancy, shaping the arguments of the Scholastics. We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis.

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.Overall the work may act as a decent introduction to philosophy as a whole, but I personally feel you would be better off delving into the faster read and likely more honest books out there . Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist.

As the book progresses it becomes more and more clear that it is a summary of Russell’s views, and not of the philosophers being discussed. Therefore, histories of philosophy usually have many authors with a single editor bringing the work together. Adianto que me deixei convencer alguns dias por esta abordagem, mas refletindo sobre alguns dos personagens mais ricos da nossa contemporaneidade como Warren Buffet ou Bill Gates, podemos ver como o facto de ser rico não é incompatível com os valores estóicos.Strangely enough, with the men of history that he finds himself in agreement with, he expresses a humility in regards to their work, clearly laying out his interpretation even though he dares not say that he truly understands m as fully as intended . Written late in life by one of the great contributors to philosophy and logic, who was also a man of deep and abiding liberal principles, it is a unique book. Russell's position is much more humble than all these bigheaded philosophers who pretended to be the first one to really have found the truth, only to introduce their own favourite (ethical) positions.

in other respects it is a marvelously readable, magnificently sweeping survey of Western thought, distinctive for placing it informatively into its historical context. 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.After all, the long stretch of time that allowed Russell to undertake the tome was granted him by a stay in prison — his crime was distributing pacifist literature during the First World War. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”.

The refugees who surround Palestine in their hundreds of thousands were described recently by the Washington journalist I. Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. Sobre este último ponto, tenho de dizer que é algo que sempre me tinha feito alguma confusão, o modo como a filosofia estava tão carregada de religião, de deuses ou forças universais que tudo explicavam. As a historian, he is using at least three hats as: mathematician, English citizen and philosopher himself. In each of these periods, Russell is careful to provide a meaningful amount of historical context, as he describes the major life events, the ideas, and the influence of the philosophers he covers.

This book starts with Thales and moves all the way to Plotinus, before it continues into the second book, which is on Catholic Philosophy. Russell also stated: "I regarded the early part of my History of Western Philosophy as a history of culture, but in the later parts, where science becomes important, it is more difficult to fit into this framework. Pode-se dizer que se aprende imenso, que no final da leitura se vê a produção de conhecimento, e os seus principais responsáveis, a uma luz totalmente distinta. A History of Western Philosophy [a] is a 1946 book by British philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970).