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somethings never change | more Russell on Augustine

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 [...]

Yahweh = Dialectical Materialism

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 [...]