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The present book was written some twenty years ago but it has not
lost its topicality, for it contains an important re-assessment of
the relations of two main streams of contemporary philosophy - the
Analytical and the Dialectic. Adherents and critics of these
traditions tend to assurnethat they are diametrically opposed, that
their roots, concerns and approaches contradict each other, and
that no reconciliation is possible. In contradistinction Russell
derives both traditions from the common root of the dissatisfaction
with the arguments against speculative philosophy. These according
to the author leave a lacuna - certain elementsof our
Weltanschaaung have been removed, but they cannot be removed
without replacement lest we have an incomplete world view, so
incomplete in fact that it cannot be viable. According to Russell
part of this vacuum is taken up by the analytical tradition but
this tradition is not capable of taking up the remainder of it.
That portion of the vacant space is however taken up by the
dialectical tradi tion, which in turn cannot itself handle the
whole of the problem. Thus the two reactions to the demise of
speculative philosophy appear to be complementary in at least this
sense. But the author goes further, for according to hirn the
analytical arguments themselves clearly point to the emergence of
dialectical problems, and the dialectical problems themselves need
some such background to arise."
The present book was written some twenty years ago but it has not
lost its topicality, for it contains an important re-assessment of
the relations of two main streams of contemporary philosophy - the
Analytical and the Dialectic. Adherents and critics of these
traditions tend to assurnethat they are diametrically opposed, that
their roots, concerns and approaches contradict each other, and
that no reconciliation is possible. In contradistinction Russell
derives both traditions from the common root of the dissatisfaction
with the arguments against speculative philosophy. These according
to the author leave a lacuna - certain elementsof our
Weltanschaaung have been removed, but they cannot be removed
without replacement lest we have an incomplete world view, so
incomplete in fact that it cannot be viable. According to Russell
part of this vacuum is taken up by the analytical tradition but
this tradition is not capable of taking up the remainder of it.
That portion of the vacant space is however taken up by the
dialectical tradi tion, which in turn cannot itself handle the
whole of the problem. Thus the two reactions to the demise of
speculative philosophy appear to be complementary in at least this
sense. But the author goes further, for according to hirn the
analytical arguments themselves clearly point to the emergence of
dialectical problems, and the dialectical problems themselves need
some such background to arise."
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