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The Bertrand Russell Collection
Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life, Russell considered himself a liberal, a socialist and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense".The Bertrand Russell Collection features some of the finest philosophical and political writing from what amounted to an incredibly gifted Problems of PhilosophyOur Knowledge of the External WorldWhy Men FightPolitical IdealsMysticism and Logic and Other EssaysThe Practice and Theory of BolshevismThe Analysis of MindandFree Thought and Official Propaganda
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Published September 5, 2018
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Bertrand Russell
1,242 books7,313 followersBertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, was a Welsh philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist. Although he was usually regarded as English, as he spent the majority of his life in England, he was born in Wales, where he also died.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought."
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought."
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October 30, 2024
Antiquated but still brilliant!
Russell introduced the phrase " logical atomism" to describe his philosophy in 1911 and used the phrase throughout the early part of the twentieth century. It is best described as partly a methodological viewpoint and partly a metaphysical theory. The Book is a very heavy read centering on analysis, which is a two step process in which one tries to identify a set of beliefs of theory, the minimum common denominator of basic concepts and the most basic vocabulary of that domain that can be derived or constructed. The language is, at times, hard to follow or antiquated. Methodology is combined with a view that the world consists in a plurality of independent and discreet entities, which by combining together form facts. According to Russell, a fact is a kind of complex, and depends for its existence on the simpler entities making it up. The simplest sort of complex, an atomic fact, was thought to consist either of a single individual exhibiting a simple quality or of a multiple collective standing in a simple relation.
Before I comment on the methodological and metaphysical elements of logical atomism you have to ask yourself can I stand to read twelve hundred pages of this in a fully analysed language and still be cognitive of the world around me and of my own bodily functions?
If you answered, " Damned skippy, sir!! " this is the book for you.
In it you will find the brilliance of genius and the dryness of kitty litter. The profound wisdom of a man of the twentieth century and the rather stereotypical prejudices of a man, again from the early twentieth century... Bertrand Russell was an intellectual giant and misunderstood pacifist who was able to glean from his visit to Russia before Marx and Trotsky in 1917 that the communists would morph into a dictatorship. He predicted that capitalism would create wage slavery of its blue collar workers. He was obsessed with analysing every facet of human existence and if that interests you then, by all means, give this book a twirl. You have been warned...
Russell introduced the phrase " logical atomism" to describe his philosophy in 1911 and used the phrase throughout the early part of the twentieth century. It is best described as partly a methodological viewpoint and partly a metaphysical theory. The Book is a very heavy read centering on analysis, which is a two step process in which one tries to identify a set of beliefs of theory, the minimum common denominator of basic concepts and the most basic vocabulary of that domain that can be derived or constructed. The language is, at times, hard to follow or antiquated. Methodology is combined with a view that the world consists in a plurality of independent and discreet entities, which by combining together form facts. According to Russell, a fact is a kind of complex, and depends for its existence on the simpler entities making it up. The simplest sort of complex, an atomic fact, was thought to consist either of a single individual exhibiting a simple quality or of a multiple collective standing in a simple relation.
Before I comment on the methodological and metaphysical elements of logical atomism you have to ask yourself can I stand to read twelve hundred pages of this in a fully analysed language and still be cognitive of the world around me and of my own bodily functions?
If you answered, " Damned skippy, sir!! " this is the book for you.
In it you will find the brilliance of genius and the dryness of kitty litter. The profound wisdom of a man of the twentieth century and the rather stereotypical prejudices of a man, again from the early twentieth century... Bertrand Russell was an intellectual giant and misunderstood pacifist who was able to glean from his visit to Russia before Marx and Trotsky in 1917 that the communists would morph into a dictatorship. He predicted that capitalism would create wage slavery of its blue collar workers. He was obsessed with analysing every facet of human existence and if that interests you then, by all means, give this book a twirl. You have been warned...
July 28, 2024
Russell an expert at verbal communication. He writes in a way that allows me to conceptualize the essence of intricate complicated problems. His brilliance is knowing what parts of the philosophical area to not include. He writes so non-experts can grasp the essence. My favorite philosophical educator.
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