@PhilosophyExp Russel is a hero. I've read many of his books. I'd never seen that one before.
The Bertrand Russell quote I tweeted seems to be quite popular. It comes from his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (1950): http://bit.ly/VJmikM
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@berkun I guess if it appears anywhere, it would be in a book of collected essays. The Nobel Prize people own the copyright, it seems.
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@PhilosophyExp Clever man. [choice between democracy and a bag of grain], at what stage of starvation will you prefer the grain to the vote? -
@H_Haagenrud Most people, at a very early stage of starvation, I'd have thought. This is a variation on Maslow's hierarchy of needs stuff. -
@PhilosophyExp yes, but the idea of an equation, an average, was (as most things) new to me. Mainly thought of the hierarchiy as absolutes.
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@PhilosophyExp - I think it's also true that we interject much humanity into in between gray areas and non idealistic compromises.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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