Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley in 1962. This is how to tell someone you won't debate with them http://twitpic.com/cn5huq via @Daniel_Loxton
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@PhilosophyExp@Daniel_Loxton He seems to still be alive...could ask him?
@alomshaha @Daniel_Loxton Not sure how reliable the answer would be (given how things ended up). See, for example: http://bit.ly/121D8Q7
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@alomshaha@Daniel_Loxton ...was "quietist" about German fascism. (Though he did come to abandon his pacificism.) -
@PhilosophyExp I don't idolise Russell but like lot of his work. Pretty sure no-one is, or has been, truly heroic or noble.@Daniel_Loxton -
@PhilosophyExp@Daniel_Loxton Think I meant *entirely* heroic or noble. -
@alomshaha@Daniel_Loxton Unfortunately, Russell's flaws were significant. See, for example: http://bit.ly/OP9Z9d (or the fact he disowned -
@PhilosophyExp Ah, Jeremy. I cannot judge Russell. My own flaws are "significant".@Daniel_Loxton -
@alomshaha@Daniel_Loxton I realise you weren't doing that (with Russell), but there is a cult of Russell thing. -
@PhilosophyExp Yes, I know. Just as there are cults of contemporary figures.@Daniel_Loxton
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