I was poking about the blogosphere today when I ran into a reference at Hadifa Sofia’s Never Say Never to Your Traveling Self to a transcript of an old BBC debate on whether God exists between Frederick Copleston and Bertrand Russell.
As an admirer of both I immediately followed Hadifa’s link to the debate. Russell’s An Outline of Philosophy was a very important book early on for me. And Copleston’s History of Philosophy as a larger exploration was, if possible, even more important for me as I was first exploring my way in the world. I was a High School dropout and an autodidact, and had by good fortune stumbled upon both these worthies at an important point in my life…
While it goes in directions I don’t in fact find helpful, particularly as they agreed too early on, on a working definition of God that I don’t find particularly compelling; the whole thing conveys a spirit of engaged dialog that seems lacking in much of the current conversation on the subject…
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