Fw: 'Mad Dog" Bertie Russell & Unitarianism

[Mark Kohut]

Knowing something about Bertrand Russell,
his work, his life and the opinion of his work,
 
I am going to risk being way wrong in suggesting
some reason(s) why TRP may have used the term "Mad Dog"
w/r/t Bertrand Russell. 
 
BR wasn't even close to deserving the phrase-- as society might use it--
 in his life or work . Very British, and ultrarational in his pure
philosophical work which explored logic and the foundations
of mathematics and connections and fullest extensions of.
 
In his private life, he was overcome with passion [love] a few
times in his life...He "lost his head" like many an obsessive when he did
although he "preserved the [social] forms"--[Golden Notebok and passim elsewhere]
 
TRP could be alluding to his private life AND [as we know, seldom OR with TRP],
I offer tentatively, the "craziness' of ultrarationality........
and "the return of the repressed" to which it can lead.....

Or it could be a nickname or an allusion I don't know. 

Lots of possibilities unfold, of course.
 


 
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Subject: 'Mad Dog" Bertie Russell & Unitarianism

                    HISTORICAL LITERARY SCHOLAR 
                    MAULED IN BRAWL WITH MASTIFF.

                    . . . .would of bit me on the ass. . . .

                    Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872-
                    February 2, 1970), philosopher, 
                    mathematician, and political activist, 
                    was a prolific and controversial writer 
                    on an extraordinary range of topics, 
                    including education, social science, 
                    politics, ethics, and religion. Because 
                    of his "philosophical works . . . of 
                    service to moral civilization," he was 
                    awarded the 1950 Nobel Prize for 
                    literature. While he left no school of 
                    disciples and he himself eventually 
                    discarded nearly all of his own 
                    philosophical ideas, his methodology 
                    has furnished a framework for much 
                    modern philosophical thought. 
                    "Russell taught us not to think his 
                    thoughts," said philosopher Gilbert 
                    Ryle, "but how to move in our own 
                    philosophical thinking."

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