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Bertrand Russell, 1927

Evangelicalhumanist

"Truth" isn't a thing...
Premium Member
I really quite like this. I have, of course, read Russell's "Why I am not a Christian," but to just listen to him walk through his arguments in his own voice is quite delicious.

If you're interested, give it a mere half-hour listen. You might learn something. Even though it does come from 1927 (almost 100 years ago).

 

Heyo

Veteran Member
I really quite like this. I have, of course, read Russell's "Why I am not a Christian," but to just listen to him walk through his arguments in his own voice is quite delicious.

If you're interested, give it a mere half-hour listen. You might learn something. Even though it does come from 1927 (almost 100 years ago).

Interesting how those arguments never get old. Nothing has changed in the last 95 years - or 500 for that matter.
 

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
Yeah, Russell was a rational empiricist, who made the standard mistake of considering everything as independent of the mind. In effect that leads to a contradiction because some of his claims about the world is not independent of his mind.
But to understand that requires that you doubt that everything is not minds. Nor that everything is minds. But rather the everything is different parts for which minds are some parts, but neither all parts nor no parts.
But that is philosophy and not science.
 

PearlSeeker

Well-Known Member
A sharp mind indeed.

Just one remark on the first cause argument. His debunking is dealing with a strawman. "... remember that what is in question here is not what events in the past led to what exists here and now, but rather what it is that keeps the things that exist, here and now, in existence here and now." (E. Feser in The Last Superstition)
 
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