@p4 till now
Animals in the Britain aren't afraid of humans, except rabbits. But this morning rabbits seemed to enjoy their own time even at the presence of a human, me, taking a walk lazily. I took pictures of them and watched these little cute creatures hopping, running, pausing and discussing. And I started searching for some place to sit. I brought "An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth" and desired to read it at the very moment. I had bought it at a second hand book store in the Netherlands.
In the "Preface" Russell says "I differ from them(the logical positivists), however, in attaching more importance than they do to the work of Berkeley and Hume", which I have known Russell as, and which Prof. Landini is challenging. Reading some sentences in the "Introduction", I found myself fascinated. I walked fast home, startling rabbits still around there to hide themselves in the bush.
I finished the introduction. Not so difficult to read. Has some humours in it, making me smile. One of the fascinating things about reading the texts written by the great philosophers is that they show how to philosophise. Russell is one of the masters in this field.
My reading didn't continue because my friend came back home after long flight from South Africa. And we are going to have guests from Korea tonight. I have to study how to entertain them, which I'm very poor at. If the weather were fine, we could go out to parks spread all over the Britain! In the morning the sun shined, but it's raining now, not a surprise, just as usual.
We, 6 people, are going to live in a tiny bedroom and a small dinning room. I will try to find time and place to study, and to give a good impression of me on them. May I succeed in both!