バートランド・ラッセル『神秘主義と論理』第1章「神秘主義と論理」n.1
* 出典:バートランド・ラッセルv,江森巳之助(訳)『神秘主義と論理』(みすず書房,1959年。276+ii pp.)* 原著: Mysticism and Logic, 1918)
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(写真は、本書を出版した1918年のラッセル:Garsington Mannor にて)
科学的衝動および神秘的衝動の明瞭な特徴づけをする前に、この2つを分ち難く混ぜ合せたことによって盛名を馳せた、2人の哲学者を例に採って説明したい。その2人とは、ヘラクレイトスとプラトンである。・・・。 |
Metaphysics, or the attempt to conceive the world as a whole by means of thought, has been developed, from the first, by the union and conflict of two very different human impulses, the one urging men towards mysticism, the other urging them towards science. Some men have achieved greatness through one of these impulses alone, others through the other alone : in Hume, for example, the scientific impulse reigns quite unchecked, while in Blake a strong hostility to science coexists with profound mystic insight. But the greatest men who have been philosophers have felt the need both of science and of mysticism : the attempt to harmonize the two was what made their life, and what always must, for all its arduous uncertainty, make philosophy, to some minds, a greater thing than either science or religion. Before attempting an explicit characterization of the scientific and the mystical impulses, I will illustrate them by examples from two philosophers whose greatnes lies in the very intimate blending which they achieved. The two philosophies I mean are Heraclitus and Plato. ... |