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To: cosmicforce who wrote (480279)	9/29/2021 5:16:04 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541181

Existentialism is an extension of science and logic as it is simply a sophisticate observation of reality . Existentialism has science and logic as its context. And who knew more than Russell about science and logic? Russell and his buddy Whitehead both turned to philosophy in their 50's saying they could not get to where they wanted go through science alone, but they were also two of the best mathematicians ever and scientists. I consider Russell as the most all around educated man of the last century. I would consider Nietzsche and Plato as among the first existentialists. Existentialism is a manifestation of the awaking mind or as Plato put it an examined life. The 60's IMO was the first major existential movement in the history of humankind and I would go farther and say that is the precept for the modern human worldwide questioning of the primitive norms and mores that have prevailed for all of history. Country after country are legalizing same sex marriage. Only Japan of the NATO allies remains to legalize it and that will fall soon. One has to ask, what is the cause for so much advancement in democracy, gender and civil rights in the last few decades. I would argue education, and education births the existential mind. EuropeSwitzerland votes to make same-sex marriage legal by near two-thirds majority <,Message #480279 from cosmicforce at 9/29/2021 4:49:04 PM I'd have to disagree about his 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."