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41. My Philosophical Development by Bertrand Russell | |
Paperback: 279
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(2007-12-31)
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I felt an aching compassion for young men embarking in troop trains to be slaughtered |
42. Russell on Religion: Selections from the Writings of Bertrand Russell (Russell on...) by Bertrand Russell | |
Paperback: 272
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(1999-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description Russell contends with religion as a philosopher, historian, social critic and private individual. The selections papers are arranged chronologically, and span Russell's thinking with his personal statements, and his views on religion and philosophy, religion and science, religion and morality and religion and history.This collection shows the development and diversity of Russell's thinking on religion and exposes the reader to all aspects of his work on this subject. Customer Reviews (2)
Russell on Religion
A"Free Man's Worship." Russell believed that the only way to obtain liberation from suffering was to abandon any hope for private happiness, and to burn instead with a passion for eternal things independent of the ruin of the physical universe (pp. 20-21; see also, "The Free Man's Worship").For him, true wisdom meant knowing all, loving all, and serving all (p. 69, see also, "The Essence of Religion").Among present-day religions, he considered Buddhism the best because it focuses on the question of what Man is, rather than what the universe is (p. 74; see also, "The Essence and Effect of Religion").In his his seminal essay, "Why I am not a Christian," Russell advocated standing up and looking the world "frankly in the face.""A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage," he wrote;"it does not need a regretful hankering over the past, or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence.It needs hope for the future, not looking back all the time towards a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create" (p. 91). This intellectually stimulating collection of essays will appeal to readers interested in the subject of religion, and to those looking for an introduction to the philosophical, historical, critical, and private writings of Bertrand Russell. G. Merritt ... Read more |
43. Bertrand Russell and Trinity by G. H. Hardy | |
Paperback: 76
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(2009-06-18)
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44. The Problems Of Philosophy : Complete And Unabridged by Bertrand Russell | |
Paperback: 106
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(2009-02-06)
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Editorial Review Product Description If it is uncertain that external objects exist, how can we then have knowledge of them but by probability. There is no reason to doubt the existence of external objects simply because of sense data. Russell guides the reader through his famous 1910 distinction between "knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description" and introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel and others to lay the foundation for philosophical inquiry by general readers and scholars alike. |
45. The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell (Halcyon Classics) by Bertrand Russell | |
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46. The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (Open Court Classics) by Bertrand Arthur Russell | |
Paperback: 196
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(1985-03-19)
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Editorial Review Product Description Logical Atomism is a philosophy that sought to account for the world in all its various aspects by relating it to the structure of the language in which we articulate information. In The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Bertrand Russell, with input from his young student Ludwig Wittgenstein, developed the concept and argues for a reformed language based on pure logic. Despite Russell’s own future doubts surrounding the concept, this founding and definitive work in analytical philosophy by one of the world’s most significant philosophers is a remarkable attempt to establish a novel way of thinking. Customer Reviews (3)
Russell's Antidote to the Monist Metaphysicians
Solid work by one of the top minds of the Century
A Good Launching Pad for Russell's More Academic Philosophy While Philosophy of Logical Atomism certainly does not cover his academic philosophy in depth, and it contains a number of points that he later amended (this is true of much of his academic philosophy), it is a good starting point for the Russell initiate as he can be a very difficult read in other academic texts. The Theory of Descriptions and the Theory of Types are both presented here.The Theory of Descriptions in its "indefinite" and "definite" form (as opposed to its presence as only the Definite Theory of Descriptions in Principia Mathematica). Anyone with a serious interest in analytical philosophy should be familiar with this material, and at the very least, the Philosophy of Logical Atomism will defintely tell you who wrote Waverly. ... Read more |
47. Bertrand Russell on Ethics, Sex, and Marriage (Great Books in Philosophy) | |
Paperback: 355
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(1987-05)
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48. What I Believe (Routledge Classics) by Bertrand Russell | |
Paperback: 72
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(2004-02-02)
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49. Principles of social reconstruction by Bertrand Russell | |
Paperback: 260
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(2010-09-08)
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50. Bertrand Russell: 1921-1970, The Ghost of Madness by Ray Monk | |
Hardcover: 592
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(2001-03-20)
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Editorial Review Product Description In the second half of his life, Bertrand Russell transformed himself from a major philosopher, whose work was intelligible to a small elite, into a political activist and popular writer, known to millions throughout the world. Yet his life is the tragic story of a man who believed in a modern, rational approach to life and who, though his ideas guided popular opinion throughout the twentieth century, lost everything. Russell's views on marriage, religion, education, and politics attracted legions of devoted followers and, at the same time, provoked harsh attacks from every direction. On the one hand, he was stripped of his post at New York's City College because he was thought to be a bad influence on his students, and on the other, he was awarded the Order of Merit, the Nobel Prize in literature, and a lifetime Fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge. He lived to be ninety-seven, and as he became older he became increasingly controversial. Monk quotes Russell's telegrams to Kennedy and Khrushchev during the Cuban missile crisis, an influence that Russell and his followers believed tipped the balance toward peace. Russell devoted his last years to a campaign organized by his secretary to lend support to Che Guevara's call for a globally coordinated revolutionary struggle against "U.S. imperialism." Until now, this last campaign has been misunderstood as a -- perhaps misguided, but nevertheless innocent -- plea for world peace. Monk reveals it was no such thing. Drawing on thousands of documents collected at the Russell archives in Canada, Monk steers through the turbulence of Russell's public activities, scrutinizing his sometimes paradoxical and often outrageous pronouncements. Monk's focus, however, is on the tragedy of Russell's personal life, and in revealing this inner drama Monk has relied heavily on the cooperation of Russell's surviving relatives and access to previously unexamined legal and private correspondence. A central player in Russell's life was his first son, John. Russell applied the methods of the new science of child psychology in his parenting, believing that a new generation of children could be reared to be "independent, fearless, and free." But instead of being a model of this new generation, John became anxious, withdrawn, and eventually schizophrenic. Nor was John's daughter Lucy (who was Russell's favorite grandchild) to be a model of the new generation; gradually she grew so emotionally disturbed that, at the age of twenty-six, she took her own life. The Ghost of Madness completes the most searching examination yet published of Bertrand Russell's unique life and work. Together with Ray Monk's highly praised first volume of the biography, The Spirit of Solitude, this is the classic account of an extraordinary man who championed the great ideas of the twentieth century and was all but destroyed by them. It is a portrait of the mind of a century. Customer Reviews (10)
Examples of Monk's anti-Russell Bias
Thanks Ray!
Autobiography vs. biography
A tormented volcanic island who spilled a lot of lavae Ray Monk magistrally portrays Russell as facing now the challenge of taking a new direction to his life, trying to achieve the same level of academical glory when entering into new fields of knowledge. The story is of a genius who had to prove to himself that he had not lost his intelectual vigour in the ageing proccess and at the same time , balancing his mundane needs trough popular texts written to readers not specialized in philosophy and mathematics, and many other areas where he was proficient. He marriages now for the second time in his life, with Dora, with he would generate a son (John) and a daughter (Kate), began for him a new era as an educator and as a mass-comunicator, where he approached all the available means (newspapers, magazines, radio panels and lectures) in order to make money thus providing the material means for his special ideas on how to educate hischildren. He wrote many books on the subject and even inaugurated a special school where his two children where educated along with the children of some upper-class Englishmen and Americans. He was two be married again twice and to have more children with Peter (yes, a very special nickname of his third wive). In terms of the outcome he got, it was nothing anyone could foresee at the beginning. To sum it up, the book is a faithful portrait of a tormentedman, surrounded by all kinds of people who loved/hated him, and who seems to destroy everyinch of happiness one could have beforegetting to know him. Strange as it seems, the man who was trying to save the world with his pacifist stand against nazism, and later comunism, and all forms of totalitarianism, was incapable of understand the human nature of all people who lived with him. This is a good book to read to everyone interested in philosophy and in the life of the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.
Remarkable biography. |
51. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein | |
Paperback: 116
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(2007-05-01)
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52. La conquista de la felicidad / The Conquest of Happiness (Filosofia / Philosophy) (Spanish Edition) by Bertrand Russell | |
Paperback: 206
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(2009-09-30)
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53. In Praise of Idleness by B. Russell | |
Paperback: 192
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(1985-01-01)
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A Naive Book by a Great Writer
In Praise of this Book
Brilliant Writing, Brilliant Thoughts But when he won the Nobel Prize, it was for Literature.When you read this book of essays, you will see why. It is beautifully written and has all of Russell's virtues: clarity, wit, humor, forcefulness, simplicity. Even better, it is a brief education in itself.Most of the essays were written just as the Great Depression was beginning, and Russell gets right to the heart of a problem Capitalists and Socialists do not usually address: How much work is needed, and what is the ultimate point?He constantly stresses that we do too much work, and most of it is unneeded, and makes life grim.He never ceases to remind us that we should work to live, not live to work. He addresses this point in many ways--through economics, through architecture, through the then-raging problems of Fascism and Communism.And though he treats serious problems seriously, he always has time for the breathtaking perspective and the ligtht touch--as with the essay, "Man Versus Insects." A wonderful, even life-changing book.
Reading is not surrogate to thinking
Must-read material for the man of the next century. . . |
54. Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness: A modern-day interpretation of a self-help classic (Infinite Success Series) by Tim Phillips | |
Paperback: 118
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(2010-01-04)
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55. The Essential Bertrand Russell Collection by Bertrand Russell | |
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56. Icarus or the Future of Science | |
Paperback: 64
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(2005-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description A science may affect human life in two different ways. On the one hand, without altering men's passions or their general outlook, it may increase their power of gratifying their desires. On the other hand, it may operate through an effect upon the imaginative conception of the world, the theology or philosophy which is accepted in practice by energetic men. The latter is a fascinating study, but I shall almost wholly ignore it, in order to bring my subject within a manageable compass. I shall confine myself almost wholly to the effect of science in enabling us to gratify our passions more freely, which has hitherto been far the more important of the two. |
57. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits by Bertrand Russell | |
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(1966)
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Strictly reserved for the serious |
58. Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Volume 7: Theory of Knowledge. The 1913 Manuscript by Bertrand Russell | |
Hardcover: 313
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(1984-06)
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59. Bertrand Russell and A.N. Whitehead (World of Philosophy) by Professor Paul Kuntz | |
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(2006-08-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description The World of Philosophy series is a dramatic presentation, in understandable language, of the concerns, questions, interests, and overall outlook of the world’s great philosophers and philosophical traditions. Special emphasis on clear and relevant explanations gives you a new arsenal of insights toward living a better life. Customer Reviews (1)
Where's the Whitehead? |
60. Fact and Fiction (Routledge Classics) by Bertrand Russell | |
Paperback: 320
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(2009-08-19)
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Editorial Review Product Description First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell’s essays that reflect on the books and writings that influenced his life, including fiction, essays on politics and education, divertissements and parables. Also broaching on the highly controversial issues of war and peace, it is in this classic collection that Russell states some of his most famous pronouncements on nuclear warfare and international relations. It is a remarkable book that provides valuable insight into the range of interests and depth of convictions of one of the world’s greatest philosophers. Customer Reviews (1)
A superb collection of essays |
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