Raymond Geuss vs. Bertrand Russell
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Raymond Geuss
1946 – present
Raymond Geuss, FBA is an American political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy. He is currently Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Geuss is primarily known for three reasons: his early account of ideology critique in The Idea of a Critical Theory; a recent collection of works instrumental to the emergence of political realism in Anglophone political philosophy over the last decade, including Philosophy and Real Politics; and a variety of free-standing essays on issues including aesthetics, Nietzsche, contextualism, phenomenology, intellectual history, culture and ancient philosophy.
"It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of mora…"
Bertrand Russell
1872 – 1970
British philosopher, logician, and social critic.
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."