Even if you cul­ti­vate only a casu­al appre­ci­a­tion for phi­los­o­phy, you’ll have real­ized that pro­fes­sion­al opin­ions dif­fer about Lud­wig Wittgen­stein, and stark­ly. Philoso­phers don’t just argue about his work; they also seem to argue about his atti­tude, his con­duct, his very per­son. Above, you can hear Betrand Rus­sell, a some­what less con­tro­ver­sial philo­soph­i­cal per­son­age, briefly … Con­tin­ue read­ing Bertrand Rus­sell on His Stu­dent Lud­wig Wittgen­stein: Man of Genius or Mere­ly an Eccen­tric?