Was this gentleman a good philosopher?

he's my favorite confessed socialist. Try his roads to freedom, it's bretty good

>>9766041
quite

Not as much as people like to portray him. His history of philosophy is decent, but far below Copleston's and his philosophy was destroyed by Gödel, this is not even a joke, Gödel literally proved that his works on logic and mathematics couldn't be possible.

But he was indeed very influential and had some interesting things on the field of analytical philosophy.

>>9766041
just another libcuck, try Hitler, Evola, and Moldbug for the truth

>>9766118
>>>/pol/
this board is 14+ at least buster

Berty was certainly influential in what he did but idk if it was worth doing desu.

Russell is an incredibly pretentious person whose writing on anything outside his specialization (phil of math/ set theory) is utterly misinformed, ridden with childish mistakes, lacking more than a superficial understanding of his subject matter, and overall blatantly stupid. It should be mentioned that ever since the end of WW1 Russell kept on rambling about how mankind needs to mend its ways or it will annihilate itself within the next 20-30 years - which he kept on repeating decades after the 20-30 years have run out.

His History doesn't make the slightest effort to understand the philosophers he's dealing with. Russell starts from the premise that he alone has figured everything out and proceeds to classify thinkers of the past according to whether or they can be understood as his forerunners or not. For his "forerunners" this means a semi-decent laudatio, for the less fortunate (and we are speaking here about thinkers like Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, or Nietzsche) it means a cringeworthy misinterpretation topped by thinly-veiled (in fact painfully obvious) moralizing condemnation.

Seriously, banging your head against a wall is time better spent than reading Russell.

>>9766108
Type theory is a huge field as is being used in univalent foundations and homotopy type theory. It doesn't really matter that his own project ultimately failed. His insights on type theory lived on.

>>9766234
t. Kurt Godel

Witty trashed him so hard he went suicidal

>>9766770
Forgot the link
https://blog.oup.com/2015/06/bertrand-russell-suicide/