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The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell (Hardcover)
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The Spinozistic Ethics of Bertrand Russell (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Russell
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Bertrand Russell's professional philosophical reputation rests
mainly on his mathematical logic and theory of knowledge. In this
study, first published in 1985, however, Kenneth Blackwell
considers Russell's writings on ethics and metaethics and uncovers
the conceptual unity in Russell's normative ethic. He traces that
unity to the influence of Spinoza's central ethical concept, the
'intellectual love of God', and then evaluates the ethic which he
terms 'impersonal self-enlargement'. The introduction discusses the
metaethical background to Russell's ethic and the difficulties
inherent in Russell's view that ethical knowledge is not possible.
The first section then examines Russell's writings on Spinoza from
1894 to 1964, dividing them into three periods, the second part
analyzes Russell's two interpretations of the main concept, traces
'impersonal self-enlargement' in Russell's own ethical writings,
and evaluates the ethic in relation to other ethical theories and
on its own merits as a 'way of living'. This book provides a
foundation for a positive re-evaluation of Russell's status in the
major philosophical field of ethics and will be welcomed by
students of moral philosophy as well as those interested in
Bertrand Russell's works.
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