If you follow me on twitter you have seen my progress through Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy. It has been a interesting read, even if I disagree with a lot of his commentary. In his concluding remarks on Hegel, he poses an interesting reflection upon the purpose of the State, contrasting Hegel against [...]

Here is the concluding comment by Bertrand Russell (from A History of Western Philosophy) on St. Augustine and St. Ambrose & St. Jerome. It is strange that the last men of intellectual eminence before the dark ages were concerned, not with saving civilization or expellig the barbarians or reforming the abuses of the administration, but [...]

The following quote comes from Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy, it is the concluding paragraph of the section on St. Augustine’s The City of God. He is closing out his remarks on Augustine’s eschatology and strangely concludes with a connection to Marx and a further reference to Nazism—Russell is thinly veiling his antagonism towards [...]

Here is some food for thought: It is noteworthy that modern Platonists, almost without exception, are ignorant of mathematics, in spite of the immense importance that Plato attached to arithmetic and geometry, and the immense influence that they had on his philosophy. This is an example of the evils of specialization: a man must not [...]