10/14/2017

People too absorbed on social networks? Bertrand Russell was pretty engaged there from 1911 onwards.

"With the completion of Principia Russell’s life, both personally and philosophically, entered a new phase. In the spring of 1911 he fell in love with Ottoline Morrell, the aristocratic wife of the Liberal MP Phillip Morrell, and began an affair that was to last until 1916. During the height of his passion he wrote Ottoline as many as three letters a day. These letters contain an almost daily record of Russell’s reactions to Wittgenstein – a record which provides a useful corrective to some of the anecdotes he told about Wittgenstein in his later years, when his love of a good story frequently got the better of his concern for accuracy."

Monk - Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius

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