History of Western Philosophy (Routledge Classics)

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A new world campaign is needed to help bring justice to the long-suffering people of the Middle East.

Second, Aristotle built a new dogmatism, putting emphasis on logic, as opposed to (scientific) observation. The latter is of particular concern to Russell who wrote this book in the aftermath of World War II.He benefited from his mathematics, from his voracious reading of all the great philosophers before him and from his thorough mastery of the most modern scientific discoveries of our time, such as relativity and quantum mechanics.

Sometimes one needs to be obscure because what you are trying to say does not allow you to be immediately clear.

Somewhere in there is the answer to the Western half of the meaning of life, and will help solve lots of emotional and life problems. All supposed knowledge is based on induction and causation; causation being nothing more than association and induction being nothing more than making universal (i.

It is likely one of the most accessible of serious works on philosophy, but given the era that produced it (1940s) and the elevation of its author, it will place demands on the reader. Para se poder criar um bom crivo crítico desta leitura é preciso começar por compreender a bagagem de Russell, alguém que começou por estudar matemática e filosofia naquilo que mais une ambas as disciplinas, a lógica, a partir do que viria lançar a corrente de pensamento que ficou conhecida como: filosofia analítica. 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?For Russell, ideas don't exist in a vacuum, and the philosophers who expressed these ideas were as much influenced by their times as vice versa.