Within he context of Whitehead's frightfully sensible moves to unbifurcate nature and science I can imagine we might think of billionaires as the scientists of nature. And this I think is why we, or I at least, prefer Bergson, a mind less interested in bpwing down to microscopes and test tubes.
In the classification of philosophers and their philosophies the rational mind often looks to a Proud Analytical Philosopher whose mother, on the advice of his father engaged in a a sexual relationship with the Private Tutor. And yes, you're correct, we are talking our man of "precision in language" Bertrand Russell, an advisor of studies and career advisor to both Whitehead and Wittgenstein. Hallowed ground, you might call it, if you were still able to smoke cigarettes, drink rum and wonder whether boys should ring around a Maypole or is that a girl thing.
Russell, an essentially stodgy old man with strong opinions and some beautiful eccenticities, classified Philosophers and Philosophies this way. 1) Philosophies of love, inspired by love and happiness. 2) Theoretical philosophies, inspired by love of knowledge. 3) Practical philosophies, inspired by love of action. He didn't think Rouseau was a philospher, rather Russell saw Rouseau as the father of nineteenth century Romanticism.
So what have we got today on the Power and Authority docket. I'll call it the distinction between re-education, the re-wiring of thought. As against the punishment of sitting in a corner, the chance to reach into your own mind and think about it.
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