Кеннет Вестфал описывает установку, заданную Расселом, в отношении Гегеля, Ницше и других (континентальных) философов. (По Westphal K. Substantive Philosophy, Infallibilism and the Critique of Metaphysics: Hegel and the Historicity of Philosophical Reason, p. 193-4)
Что стоит отметить: Рассел убеждал не аргументом, но риторикой(!).
Что за недуг? Способность перестать понимать что-либо после того, как услышат слово "Гегель", см. фрагмент 2.
Famously, Moore and Russell revolted against British Idealism, with Hegel tossed in for good measure.8 Replying to F. C. S. Schiller’s review of The Analysis of Mind in 1922, Russell exhorted: ‘I should take “back to the 18th century” as a battle-cry, if I could entertain any hope that others would rally to it’.9 Russell stated that his differences with Schiller, a British pragmatist, were so fundamental that they could not be settled by logical argument without begging the question (petitio principii), so that ‘the remarks which I shall have to make will be of the nature of rhetoric rather than logic’.10 In this connection Russell acknowledged, ‘I dislike the heart as an inspirer of beliefs; I much prefer the spleen. ...’ 11
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He then excoriated romanticism, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and futurism for having contributed nothing ‘that deserves to be remembered’.12 Unfortunately, most analytic philosophers were taken in by Russell’s rhetorical invective, in part because few could know that at this time Russell regarded Schiller as ‘certainly among the two or three most eminent of living British philosophers’ and was writing very strong recommendations for him!13 The results of Russell’s invective linger in the remarkable capacity philosophers still have, as Frederick Will once remarked to me, no longer to understand what one says as soon as one mentions the name ‘Hegel’. Passions and factionalism easily thwart reasonable discussion and rational assessment, also in philosophy, and especially so during the ideologically inflamed Twentieth Century, which took its toll upon philosophy in ways only now being plumbed (in mainstream Anglophone philosophy).14