russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies n.s. (winter –): – The Bertrand Russell Research Centre, McMaster U. issn –; online – c:\users\ken\documents\type\red\rj red.docx -- : PM Bibliographies, Archival Inventories, Indexes A SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY PART II: EXTRACTED NON-ENGLISH REVIEWS Kenneth Blackwell Giovanni D. de Carvalho Harry Ruja or “Part i: Extracted Reviews in English”, see Russell (summer ): –. The reviews combine Russell’s own files and copies of many reviews added and identified in this compilation and earlier. The assistance of Lukas Spencer when he was a student employee of McMaster Library Research Collections was appreciated. Abbreviations for holdings are: ra = original clipping that came with ra; ra′ = original clipping added to ra; ra″ = photocopy. The total number of reviews is . They are kept in box . of the Russell Archives and are searchable online there. Appended is a select bibliography of publications on the History since the reviews appeared. A., C. Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia , no. (Jan.–Mar. ): –. ra″. In Portuguese . “Driven perhaps by his political ideas, Russell does not like Sparta or Plato, much less Aristotle. On the other hand, the Greek philosopher who seduces him most is Pythagoras, and the Greek mathematicians. He speaks sympathetically of Plotinus, with whom the Greek speculation comes to an end.” “The book is less a history of philosophy than a scientist’s views across Western culture. Therefore it does not have a bibliography, it does not study any author in depth, it only sticks to some salient points, which the author tries to develop in their political and historical environment.” “His metaphysical concerns are minimal, what interests him most is the development of the sciences, and from the beginning to the end of the book one feels that he wants to show how teleological knowledge has moved on to mechanistic and relativistic knowledge, which allows him to finish the work with praise of the modern science of analytical thought, of which the author himself is one of the main representatives today.” Ahlberg, Alf. “Bertrand Russell som Filosofihistoriker” [Bertrand Russell as Historian of Philosophy]. Samtid och Framtid (): –. ra″. In Swedish. “It is very charming; it follows a a worthy tradition in English historical writing, which is marked by such names as Gibbon, Macaulay and others.” Anonymous. L’Orma (): . ra. In Italian. Not seen. F Non-English Reviews of History of Western Philosophy c:\users\ken\documents\type\red\rj red.docx -- : PM Asti Vera, Armando. Sur: Revista Mensuel, Buenos Aires, , no. (Apr. ): –. ra″. In Spanish. “His History of Western Philosophy may be subject to criticism—and some have already been made—but it must be acknowledged that few could have undertaken such a task by demonstrating, as Russell has done, such extensive and rigorous scientific knowledge, together with an analytical aptitude that is astonishing .” “To write a history of philosophy like Russell’s would have required prodigious scholarship, impossible to find in one single man. This is what he himself has acknowledged , and sometimes the resort to secondhand sources, which although it does not affect the informational aspect—especially in terms of history—has been the cause of serious errors when it comes to philosophical thinking. Thus, for example, his interpretation of Socrates is poor, and the chapter on the Sophists confused, among whom he fails to differentiate critics from demagogues.” “It should be noted, as one of the best merits of the work, Russell's extraordinary ability to distinguish the fundamental from the accessory, of which many examples can be found in many parts of his history of philosophy, such as in the examination of Leibniz ’s philosophy and the preponderance that he grants to the problem of universals, which he analyzes repeatedly and thoroughly through Plato, Aristotle, Scotus, Avicenna, the Scholastics, Roscellinus, Abelard, St. Thomas, Roger Bacon, Occam, Leibniz, Locke and Hume.” “There are excellent chapters, for example, the exposition of the problem of causality in Hume, the study and critical examination of Kant (he notices, among other aspects, the Kantian error of locating arithmetic in time, an error that has gone unnoticed to most critics of Kant).” “The chapter on Marx is brilliant and so is...
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