Bookmark 01.20.2016 theology & science... [a history of western philosophy] OzSo 6:39

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philosophy, as i shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to which definite knowledge has, so far, been unascertainable; but like science, it appeals to human reason rather than to authority, whether that of tradition or that of revelation. all definite knowledge—so i should contend—belongs to science; all dogma as to what surpasses definite knowledge belongs to theology.

[espacio por propósito estético]

but between theology and science there is a no man's land, exposed to attack from both sides; this no man's land is philosophy. almost all the questions of most interest to speculative minds are such as science cannot answer, and the confident answers of theologians no longer seem so convincing as they did in former centuries.

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russell, r. (1963). bertrand russell. a history of western philosophy and its connection with political and social circumstances: from the earliest times to the present day. (9a ed., p. 895). nueva york: simon & schuster 

[bookmark'14: 26.07]: boredom + conquest of happiness + bertrand russell OzSo 6:34

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(...) constructive purposes do not easily form themselves in an infant's mind if she is living a life of distractions and dissipations, for in that case her thoughts will always be directed towards the next pleasure rather than towards the distant achievement. for all these reasons a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little people, of people unduly divorced from the slow processes of nature, of women and men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

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bertrand russell en the conquest of happiness (1930) edición 1996 p. 54

(algunas modificaciones de género en los grises :p)