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>> No.11491570
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>>11491553
>bertrand Russel

>> No.11491775

>>11491570
What a pic

>> No.11491860

>>11491570
Accurate.

>> No.11491915

>>11491553
if people only believed what is true then everyone would be believe at nothing at all.

>> No.11491931

>>11491570
saved

>> No.11492014

what a fucking tool. will pray for him.

>> No.11492055

He didn't examine those arguments hard enough because he demonstrated a few severe misunderstandings of Aquinas in his history. I believe in God but I leave myself open to the possibility that He doesn't exist. Unlike him, I don't simply give a superficial examination of the arguments and leave it at that since I found the answer I wanted.

>> No.11492328

He is the perfect representative of a British intellectual. He raised some kids that weren't his after letting his wife have an affair with an American.

>> No.11492348

>>11491553
This is sad. Kant was right. If I saw this in high school I'd probably keel over in awe. Thank God I didn't, and thank God my exposure to philosophy was sparing until my early twenties. Watching this after having read Kant is like watching a teenager talk philosophy. At least when a teenager talks though, it's fun to hear him out. This is sad. Sad.

>> No.11492371

>>11491553
What an adorable old man voice. Also he is right, pragmatism is degenerate.

>> No.11492380

>>11492348
>ethics doesn't come from God you are better off using reason
>retard needs to read Kant
what did he mean by this?

>> No.11492448

>>11491553
People like Russell are to blame for the decline of the west.

>> No.11492481

>>11492328
Cucked by the wife, outdone in logic by his protege who subsequently gave up on it when he realized it was a meme, outdone in Math by Whitehead who subsequently somehow managed to use it to successfully transition into metaphysics. Truly, the supreme gentleman.

>> No.11492554

>>11491553
Why does /lit/ hate this man so much? Is it just butthurt continentals and christcucks or do people here have legit criticism of Russell?

>> No.11492573

>>11492554
He is a KEK, don't you see? cuck cuck cuck cuck cuck ccuk ccuck ccuckc cuckckcuuc kcuckcukcuckuc

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>>11492328

>> No.11492630

>>11492554
I have a mathematics degree and can't stand him either. He is something of an epitomisation of the petty intellectual.

>> No.11492681

>>11491553
>13 TIMES RUSSELL EMASCULATED YOUR SILLY PREMODERN GODDESSES

>> No.11492711

the more you state about god, the more likely you are to be wrong

by stating nothing about god, I am therefore less likely to be wrong

>> No.11492714

>>11492630

But your mathematics degree is watered down pleb gruel compared to the world famous Cambridge Mathematical Tripos.

>> No.11492722

>>11492714
Not really.

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>>11492711
This is why you have to let God speak for himself, which in turn is why revelation is so important.

>> No.11492746

>>11492739
Stop trying to create a false dichotomy between religious people and fedora-tippers.
Please.

>> No.11492750

>>11492739
revelation contradicts itself between individuals, particularly along cultural lines

>> No.11492756

>>11492739
Based.

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>>11491553
>there's no practical reason to believe what isn't true
>either a thing is true or it isn't
>if it's true you should believe it
>practical isn't a question
>unless it's impractical
>I'm a pinball
>I'm a goldfish
>around thirteen I began questioning if there was any practical reason to believe in God
>and now I'm a seventy-year-old-thirteen-year-old-Boomer-before-Zoomer trapped in the husk of King Solomon
>I have multiple accounts to upvote myself on reddit
>not because it's practical, of course
So this is the power of Scientism...

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>>11491570
>brainlet russell

>> No.11492903

>>11492739
i never could belive in the legitimacy of anyone who claim they had a revelation. i meditate and have interesting states of mind sometimes, fierey demonic peak of ecstasy and such, but it would never ever cross my mind to push that onto other people to gain something. there is no spirit.

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>>11492903
>i meditate and have interesting states of mind sometimes, fierey demonic peak of ecstasy and such

>> No.11492916

>>11491553
kek, Russell sure seems chipper when based Copleston isn't around to put him in his autistic place

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz2GjKPbQds

Russell's point literally devolves into
>I-I d-don't understand what you m-mean by 'necessary Being'

>> No.11492927

>>11491553
https://newrepublic.com/article/95256/the-atheism-bertrand-russell-and-julian-huxley

>> No.11492995

>>11492916
Bertrand is actually right in this particular debate.

>> No.11493000

>>11491570
saved

>> No.11493008

>>11492554
Reddit philosopher

>> No.11493010

>>11491570
this

>> No.11493016

>>11491553
the only thing you need to know about Russell is how hard he got dunked on by Wittgenstein

>> No.11493344

>>11492916
Bertrand comes off as better in this one, sorry

>> No.11493368

>>11491553
>either a thing is true or it isnt

he's so smarmy, how can you write an entire book on the history of philosophy and still be such a twat