Questions such as the meaning of life and the nature of reality still puzzle humans to this day. Photograph: Karl Weatherly/Getty
When I was young it crossed my mind to wonder what the purpose of life was, so, thinking that it might help, I bought a copy of Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy.
Not only that, I also bought a notebook to record the words in the book that I didn’t understand and look them up in the dictionary. I soon abandoned the latter exercise, but I got to the end of Russell’s weighty tome, introducing myself along the way to a few thousand years of Western musing, from t
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