>> Bertrand Russell, or Einstein being existentialists, both were without questions existentialists.
en.wikipedia.org
Defining (emphasis added):
Existentialism is a form of philosophical inquiry that explores the problem of human existence and centers on the experience of thinking, feeling, and acting. [3] [4]
I'd have to disagree about Bertrand Russell's Existentialism - he was about logic - not the emotions of the human experience which are highly personal and subjective. As co-author of Principia Mathematica - a difficult to read tome to say the least where all the assumptions are laid out prior to proving 1+1 = 2 ( somewhat (in)famously on page 379 in first edition), it is certainly different in character than other existential works.
theguardian.com
In his 1946 essay, Russell teaches his "laymen" readers to think more objectively about emotive issues: "When, in a sentence expressing political opinion, there are words that arouse powerful but different emotions in different readers, try replacing them by symbols, A, B, C, and so on and forgetting the particular significance of the symbols. Suppose A is England, B is Germany and C is Russia. So long as you remember what the letters mean, most of the things you will believe will depend upon whether you are English, German or Russian, which is logically irrelevant." |
