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[Anonymous No.12252244]

How is this book for a philosiphylet who is at least equally interested in the history of philosophy as the actual philosophical thought?

[Anonymous No.12252254]

Philosophylet*

[Anonymous No.12252255]

>>12252244
standard autistic Anglo analytic biases, the one by Anthony Kenny is better

[Anonymous No.12252257]

>>12252244
just avoid Russell if you want to into philosophy

[Anonymous No.12252263]

>>12252257
But I don’t want to read the Greeks. I just want someone to explain all of it to me at once

[Anonymous No.12252283]

>>12252255
+1

Reading Russell's book, you'll learn a lot of interesting things about what Bertrand Russell thought about the history of Western philosophy, but not so much about the history of Western philosophy.

[Anonymous No.12252287]

>>12252244
That book is heavily biased. Coplestons history of philosophy is better.

[Anonymous No.12252295]

>>12252244
I say old chap, just *stamps pipe*, stop being concerned with anything and take a seat over there. We can figure this blasted thing out, by taking the thing apart. Now, let me see that book. OH, dear me, that's MY book. Why then, of course it's, as you say, for someone "at least equally interested in the history of philosophy as the actual philosophical thought---and let me finish your sentence----'itself'.
I met Lenin in 1920 when I was in Russia, I had an hours talk with him. His english was quite good. I was less impressed by Lenin than I expected to be. I saw one other thing about him, and he said this, "You see, there are poor peasants and rich peasants. And we stirred up the poor peasants against the rich peasants, and they soon hanged them to the nearest tree, oh ho ho ho!". I didn't much like that
Now another thing. *relights pipe* *licks lip repeatedly like a cat when it stops eating* The white population of the world will soon cease to increase. The Asiatic races will be longer, and the negroes still longer, before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without help of war and pestilence.... Until that happens, the benefits aimed at by socialism can only be partially realized, and the less prolific races will have to defend themselves against the more prolific by methods which are disgusting even if they are necessary.
I'll say one last thing. Religion, since it has its source in terror, has dignified certain kinds of fear and made people think them not disgraceful. In this it has done mankind a great disservice: all fear is bad. I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.
Now, there you old boy, go get yourself a pipe, and smoke it. *takes another puff* Now, did I ever tell you about the one time smoking in fact, SAVED MY LIFE?

[Anonymous No.12252307]

I say old chap, just *stamps pipe*, stop being concerned with anything and take a seat over there. We can figure this blasted thing out, by taking the thing apart. Now, let me see that book. OH, dear me, that's MY book. Why then, of course it's, as you say, for someone "at least equally interested in the history of philosophy as the actual philosophical thought---and let me finish your sentence----'itself'.
I met Lenin in 1920 when I was in Russia, I had an hours talk with him. His english was quite good. I was less impressed by Lenin than I expected to be. I saw one other thing about him, and he said this, "You see, there are poor peasants and rich peasants. And we stirred up the poor peasants against the rich peasants, and they soon hanged them to the nearest tree, oh ho ho ho!". I didn't much like that
Now another thing. *relights pipe* *licks lip repeatedly like a cat when it stops eating* The white population of the world will soon cease to increase. The Asiatic races will be longer, and the negroes still longer, before their birth rate falls sufficiently to make their numbers stable without help of war and pestilence.... Until that happens, the benefits aimed at by socialism can only be partially realized, and the less prolific races will have to defend themselves against the more prolific by methods which are disgusting even if they are necessary.
I'll say one last thing. Religion, since it has its source in terror, has dignified certain kinds of fear and made people think them not disgraceful. In this it has done mankind a great disservice: all fear is bad. I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am not young and I love life. But I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting. Many a man has borne himself proudly on the scaffold; surely the same pride should teach us to think truly about man's place in the world. Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cosy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigour, and the great spaces have a splendour of their own.
Now, there you old boy, go get yourself a pipe, and smoke it. *takes another puff* Now, did I ever tell you about the one time smoking in fact, SAVED MY LIFE?

[Anonymous No.12252337]

>>12252244
>reading books from the literal cuckold king *nglo pacifist

[Anonymous No.12252395]

>>12252244
That's the worst cover I've ever seen

[Anonymous No.12252407]

>>12252244
Really good to read after you read actual text from what he's talking about.

Would be better if you read his "Problems of Philosophy"

Ignore people like >>12252255 if you want to go anywhere in Philosophy. All schools of philosophy will in some way be useful to you.