Ethics and Religion

Metaphysics, or the attempt to conceive the world as a whole by means of thought, has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very different human impulses, the one urging men towards mysticism, the other urging them towards science. ... But the greatest men who have been ph...

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Published inThe Development of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy pp. 461 - 507
Main Author Jager, Ronald
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Routledge 1972
Edition1
Subjects
External Relations
False Proposition
EARLY METAPHYSICS
Swiss Cheese
Atomist Phase
True Proposition
Meinong's Theory
Propositional Functions
Russell's Sense
Russell's Philosophy
Russell's Thought
Russell's Work
Frege's Functions
Intrinsic Properties
Russell's Arguments
Logical Atomism
Verbal Noun
Platonic Realism
Subsistent Beings
Logical Subject
Final Unities
Aristotelian Realism
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ISBN9781138870703
9780415295451
1138870706
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DOI10.4324/9781315830582-10

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Summary:Metaphysics, or the attempt to conceive the world as a whole by means of thought, has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very different human impulses, the one urging men towards mysticism, the other urging them towards science. ... But the greatest men who have been philosophers have felt the need both of science and of mysticism; the attempt to harmonise the two was what made their life, and what always must, for all its arduous uncertainty, make philosophy, to some minds, a greater thing than either science or religion.
ISBN:9781138870703
9780415295451
1138870706
0415295459
DOI:10.4324/9781315830582-10