A Little History of Philosophy
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/ Bertrand Russell
"Bertrand Russell’s main interests as a teenager were sex, religion
and mathematics – all at a theoretical level. In his very long life
(he died in 1970, aged 97) he ended up being controversial
about the first, attacking the second, and making important
contributions to the third."
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Thoughts in Disguise
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Sigmund Freud
"Can you really know yourself? The Ancient philosophers
believed that you could. But what if they were wrong? What if
there are parts of your mind that you can never reach directly,
like rooms that are permanently locked so that you can never
enter them?"
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The Death of God
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Friedrich Nietzsche
‘God is dead’.
"These are the most famous words that the German
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) wrote. But how
could God die? God is supposed to be immortal. Immortal
beings don’t die. They live for ever. In a way, though, that’s the
point. That’s why God’s death sounds so odd: it’s meant to.
Nietzsche was deliberately playing on the idea that God couldn’t
die. He wasn’t literally saying that God had been alive at one
time and now wasn’t; rather that belief in God had stopped
being reasonable. In his book Joyful Wisdom (1882) Nietzsche
put the line ‘God is dead’ in the mouth of a character who holds
a lantern and looks everywhere for God, but can’t find him. The
villagers think he is crazy."
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So What?
C.S. Peirce and William James
"A squirrel is clinging tightly to the trunk of a large tree. On the
other side of the tree, close up against the trunk is a hunter.
Every time the hunter moves to his left, the squirrel moves
quickly to its left too, scurrying further round the trunk,
hanging on with its claws. The hunter keeps trying to find the
squirrel, but it manages to keep just out of his sight. This goes
on for hours, and the hunter never gets a glimpse of the squirrel.
Would it be true to say that the hunter is circling the squirrel?
Think about it. Does the hunter actually circle his prey?"
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Workers of the World Unite
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Karl Marx
"In the nineteenth century there were thousands of cotton mills
in the north of England. Dark smoke poured from their tall
chimneys, polluting the streets and covering everything in soot.
Inside men, women and children worked very long hours –
often 14-hour days – to keep the spinning machines going.
They weren’t quite slaves, but their wages were very low, and the
conditions were tough and often dangerous. If they lost concen-
tration they could get caught up in the machinery and lose
limbs or even be killed. Medical treatment in these circum-
stances was basic. They had little choice, though: if they didn’t
work they would starve. If they walked away, they might not
find another job. People who worked in these conditions didn’t
live long, and there were very few moments in their lives they
could call their own."
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Life’s Sacrifices
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Søren Kierkegaard
"Abraham has a message from God. It is a truly awful one: he
must sacrifice his only son, Isaac. Abraham is in emotional
torment. He loves his son, but he is also a devout man
and knows he has to obey God. In this story from Genesis in
the Old Testament, Abraham takes his son up to the top of a
mountain, Mount Moriah, ties him to a stone altar and is about
to kill him with a knife, as God has instructed. At the very last
second, though, God sends an angel who stops the slaughter.
Instead, Abraham sacrifices a ram that is caught in some bushes
nearby. God rewards Abraham’s loyalty by allowing his son
to live."
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