Analytic philosophy

What we need is a philosophy that rigorously upholds the rules of logic—as analytic philosophy does—and yet resists the temptation to make an individual thinker no more than an administrator of mankind’s collective project of knowledge accumulation—as analytic philosophy also does. We need both the dispassionate dedication to reason of the mathematician and the ardent dedication to truth of the religious mind. Bertrand Russell, for example, recommends, in addition to knowledge about the universe, “a certain intensity and depth of feeling in regard to what is believed about the universe.” It is those who strive both for truth and for a depth of feeling about truth, Russell says, who are philosophers. Russell cites the case of Heraclitus, for whom “the facts of science, as they appeared to him, fed the flame in his soul, and in its light, he saw into the depths of the world.”