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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The strength of this book lies equally in its brevity and its authorship. Only a truly informed lover of Russell such as Monk could achieve so concise and elucidatory a review. What's more, by situating Russell's life's work in his early childhood traumas, one gleans so much more than just a clear and accessible panoramic overview of the evolution in his thinking, itself an incredible achievement for subject matter so heavy, but one also appreciates the personal mission in Russell's life's work to prove the existence of absolute truth. In this way, [spoiler alert] when one reaches the end of these 58 printed pages, one is able thus to interpret its ending not as a failure of mission but as transcendence. So Russell renounces the search for absolute truth, and in this way, finally is able to accept, integrate and overcome the great loss and uncertainty of his early life. At a spiritual level we come to understand his superficial failure as his most meaningful success. This is a movingly universal and inspirational tale with meaning beyond the history of western philosophical thought. And how charming to by the way come to understand the genealogy of the language of my high school mathematics teachers. This story of a man who largely did his thinking alone and can be said to have achieved nothing in his life, can also so clearly be understood to have created the language and frameworks from which entire field(s) of thinking would arise within a generation. A fantastic introduction to Russell - and Wittgenstein - and very well told. Bravo! ( ) I started to read this because I wanted to get a nice spring reading of popularized philosophy. I had heard good things about this series. I got through the first three articles (Socrates, Plato and Descartes), and stopped. Those articles were meandering, and did not seem to have good points. They also were not at all well popularized. The Great Philosophers brings together in one volume and in chronological order the best from a successful series:- Anthony Gottlieb on Socrates Bernard Williams on Plato John Cottingham on Descartes Roger Scruton on Spinoza David Berman on Berkeley Anthony Quinton on Hume Terry Eagleton on Marx Ray Monk on Russell Jonathan Ree on Heidegger Peter Hacker on Wittgenst Frederic Raphael on Popper Andrew Hodges on Turing sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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This text brings together in one volume, and in chronological order, a selection of titles from Weidenfeld and Nicolson's series The Great Philosophers: Anthony Gottlieb on Socrates, Bernard Williams on Plato, John Cottingham on Descartes, Roger Scruton on Spinoza, David Berman on Berkeley, Anthony Quinton on Hume, Terry Eagleton on Marx, Jonathan Ree on Heidegger, Peter Hacker on Wittgenstein, Andrew Hodges on Turing, Ray Monk on Russell and Frederic Raphael on Popper. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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