Chapter Descriptions for 'The Frankish Tower' (forthcoming, 2018)

The chapters are summarised below.
Bertrand Russell and Philosophy in the West
Russell discussed the philosophical outlook of George Berkeley, the late 17th/early 18th century Divine, in his History of Western Philosophy, as it emerges from a conversation between two characters in a dialogue, Hylas and Philonous. This comes to a rather eastern flavoured conclusion, that the reality of the world involves cosmic mind, and that its physical nature is of very little importance. Bertrand Russe...