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The Analysis of Mind

The Analysis of Mind

Russell, Bertrand

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ISBN10: 1539075907
ISBN13: 9781539075905
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 25 2016
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
An Analysis of Mind formed the basis of a series lectures delivered by Bertrand Russell in 1921. Few things are more firmly established in popular philosophy than the distinction between mind and matter. Those who are not professional metaphysicians are willing to confess that they do not know what mind actually is, or how matter is constituted; but they remain convinced that there is an impassable gulf between the two, and that both belong to what actually exists in the world. Philosophers, on the other hand, have maintained often that matter is a mere fiction imagined by mind, and sometimes that mind is a mere property of a certain kind of matter. Those who maintain that mind is the reality and matter an evil dream are called idealists - a word which has a different meaning in philosophy from that which it bears in ordinary life. Those who argue that matter is the reality and mind a mere property of protoplasm are called materialists. They have been rare among philosophers, but common, at certain periods, among men of science. Idealists, materialists, and ordinary mortals have been in agreement on one point: that they knew sufficiently what they meant by the words mind and matter to be able to conduct their debate intelligently. Yet it was just in this point, as to which they were at one, that they seem to me to have been all alike in error.

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