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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Replying to @alomshaha
@alomshaha@Daniel_Loxton I wonder if this was actually written by Ralph Schoenman... http://bit.ly/121Cmma1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp@Daniel_Loxton He seems to still be alive...could ask him?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @alomshaha
@alomshaha@Daniel_Loxton Not sure how reliable the answer would be (given how things ended up). See, for example: http://bit.ly/121D8Q71 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@alomshaha@Daniel_Loxton ...was "quietist" about German fascism. (Though he did come to abandon his pacificism.)3 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@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_Loxton1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @alomshaha
@PhilosophyExp@Daniel_Loxton Think I meant *entirely* heroic or noble.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @alomshaha
@alomshaha@Daniel_Loxton Unfortunately, Russell's flaws were significant. See, for example: http://bit.ly/OP9Z9d (or the fact he disowned1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp Ah, Jeremy. I cannot judge Russell. My own flaws are "significant".@Daniel_Loxton2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@alomshaha @Daniel_Loxton Sure, but maybe you're not been held up as a paragon of human virtue... (which is really my objection here).
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
@PhilosophyExp@alomshaha I'm not much of a Russell scholar, I'm afraid. I'm acquainted w his thinking relevant to skepticism, but that's it2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Daniel_Loxton
@Daniel_Loxton@alomshaha I got interested last year. Spent three months researching him, etc. Partly because I think people are very...0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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