Re: [asa] Books on History of Philosophy / POS

Don't forget the pictures. Where else will you find a picture of Jeremy
Bentham's dressed skeleton, which comes to meetings at University
College, London?
Dave (ASA)

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:08:22 -0400 "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
writes:
This will probably not be satisfactory for David's purpose since it
barely gets into the 20th century but I find Bertrand Russell's A History
of Western Philosophy a useful & fun reference. It's fun simply because
Russell was a good writer. Of course he was an atheist & his evaluations
of Christian philosophers sometimes shows that but he can be equally
critical of others as well. E.g., on Nietzsche's "Thou goest to woman?
Do not forget thy whip" he says, ""Nine women out of ten would have taken
the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and
soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks."

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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Received on Sun Jul 15 19:40:50 2007