PHILOSOPHY

The Riddle Of Life

From Plato to Russell

Robert Bush
The Shortform
Published in
1 min readJan 8, 2024

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From top thinkers living in a bygone age, like Plato, to more modern thinkers like Bertrand Russell, everyone has tried to solve the riddle of life.

Some philosophers have argued that life is just a game. And as in most games there is a scoring system. In football there are goals, in tennis there are sets and in a card game…

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Robert Bush
The Shortform

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