The Bertrand Russell Gallery I ntroduction Bertrand Russell, the third Earl Russell, is the twentieth century's most important liberal thinker, one of two or three of its major philosophers, and a http://russell.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/
Extractions: Bertrand Russell, the third Earl Russell, is the twentieth century's most important liberal thinker, one of two or three of its major philosophers, and a prophet for millions of the creative and rational life. He was born in 1872, at the height of Britain's economic and political ascendancy, and died in 1970 when Britain's empire had all but vanished and her power had been drained in two victorious but debilitating world wars. At his death, however, his voice still carried moral authority, for he was one of the world's most influential critics of nuclear weapons and the American war in Vietnam. Although born into one of Britain's most distinguished aristocratic Whig families, he became a persistent advocate of social democracy and other progressive causes, such as women's rights, peace among nations and a scientific approach to eradicate personal and public irrationality. His grandfather as Lord John Russell had been the architect of the Great Reform Bill of 1832, which extended the franchise peacefully to many in the middle classes. Orphaned before he was four years old, Bertrand Russell was brought up by his grandmother who tried to train him to become Prime Minister in the tradition of his grandfather. Russell had little idea of his abilities until he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1890, for he was educated in virtual isolation while bearing painful if hidden psychic scars from his early bereavement. There his talents in philosophy and mathematics blossomed and until 1914 he devoted most of his time to these pursuits, becoming a world authority, a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1908 and publishing, with Alfred Whitehead
Extractions: 1918, Cornwall Press, Inc, Cornwall NY Contents Introduction Part I. Historical I. Max And Socialist Doctrine Ii. Bakunin And Anarchism Iii. The Syndicalist Revolt Part II. Problems Of The Future Iv. Work And Pay V. Government And Law Vi. International Relations Vii. Science And Art Under Socialism Viii. The World As It Could Be Made Index Add Your Comments Back to the Anarchist Reading List from the Anarchist Reading List at: http://www.zpub.com/notes/aan-read.html
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Extractions: Here, you will also find information about our journal, The Spokesman , and links to our publications website Spokesman Books Edited by Tony Simpson The Spokesman 110 ‘Whilst still in opposition, in August 2009, the then Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, argued for what he called ‘progressive’ and ‘fundamental’ reform of public services. The alternative, according to the Chancellor in waiting, was ‘deep cuts in the quality of those services’. Praying in aid Tony Blair and Alan Milburn, who were by then advocating something similar, he said that what was true ‘in the years of plenty’ was doubly true in an age of austerity. Now installed, Chancellor Osborne has set about his austere task with a will. As the comprehensive spending review looks to slice further tens of billions from departmental budgets, the cuts are already scything through public services round the country. Local government workers in their tens of thousands have received Section 118 redundancy notices, as have their counterparts in the Civil Service and sundry quangos. Public service, and all its outworks, is being chopped hard. Osborne shows little awareness of how adversely his cuts impact the private sector. The likelihood of a double-dip recession, not to say a full-blown slump, seems to worry him hardly at all.’ Tony Simpson, from his Editorial
Extractions: Cite this entry Search the SEP Advanced Search Tools ... Stanford University The following two sound clips are from Bertrand Russell's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. They appear here courtesy of the United Nations Unesco Archives (tape #823, 18.12.50) and the library of the Bertrand Russell Society . A full text version of the speech appears at the Nobel e-Museum Return to Bertrand Russell by
The Bertrand Russell Society Association dedicated to the memory and legacy of this thinker. Features news, membership information, links and events. http://users.drew.edu/~jlenz/brs.html
The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly The Bertrand Russell Society Quarterly is the official organ of the Bertrand Russell society. It publishes Society News and Proceedings, as well as essays and discussions http://www.lehman.edu/deanhum/philosophy/BRSQ/
Bertrand Russell (Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) Bertrand Arthur William Russell (b.1872 – d.1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell/
Extractions: Photo by Larry Burrows First published Thu Dec 7, 1995; substantive revision Mon Mar 29, 2010 Gottlob Frege (which still forms the basis of most contemporary logic), his defense of neutral monism (the view that the world consists of just one type of substance that is neither exclusively mental nor exclusively physical), and his theories of definite descriptions and logical atomism . Along with G.E. Moore , Russell is generally recognized as one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy. Along with , he is regularly credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century. Over the course of his long career, Russell made significant contributions, not just to logic and philosophy, but to a broad range of subjects including education, history, political theory and religious studies. In addition, many of his writings on a variety of topics in both the sciences and the humanities have influenced generations of general readers. 1. A Chronology of Russell's Life
Bertrand Russell's Immediate Family This page contains images and brief descriptions of Bertrand Russell's immediate family, viz. his wives and children. http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~bertrand/family.html
Extractions: Person(s) in Photograph: Alys Russell (Pearsall Smith) Description: Russell first met the American Quaker, Alys Pearsall Smith, when he was seventeen years old. Russell fell in love with the puritanical, high-minded Alys and in marrying her in December 1894 he distanced himself from the world of Pembroke Lodge. He was once attracted to her younger sister Mary, who later married the distinguished art historian Bernard Berenson. Archive Box Number: RA3 Rec. Acq. 941 Person(s) in Photograph: Alys Russell (Pearsall Smith) Description:
Political Ideals - Page 7 way. But democracy is not at all an adequate device unless it is accompanied by a very great amount of devolution. Love of uniformity, or the mere pleasure of interfering, or http://www.wordiq.com/books/Political_Ideals/7
Extractions: Political Ideals by Russell, Bertrand Arthur William 3rd, Earl Page 7 way. But democracy is not at all an adequate device unless it is accompanied by a very great amount of devolution. Love of uniformity, or the mere pleasure of interfering, or dislike of differing tastes and temperaments, may often lead a majority to control a minority in matters which do not really concern the majority. We should none of us like to have the internal affairs of Great Britain settled by a parliament of the world, if ever such a body came into existence. Nevertheless, there are matters which such a body could settle much better than any existing instrument of government. The theory of the legitimate use of force in human affairs, where a government exists, seems clear. Force should only be used against those who attempt to use force against others, or against those who will not respect the law in cases where a common decision is necessary and a minority are opposed to the action of the majority. These seem legitimate occasions for the use of force; and they should be legitimate occasions in international affairs, if an international government existed. The problem of the legitimate occasions for the use of force in the absence of a government is a different one, with which we are not at present concerned. Good political institutions would weaken the impulse toward force and domination in two ways: first, by increasing the opportunities for the creative impulses, and by shaping education so as to strengthen these impulses; secondly, by diminishing the outlets for the possessive instincts. The diffusion of power, both in the political and the economic sphere, instead of its concentration in the hands of officials and captains of industry, would greatly diminish the opportunities for acquiring the habit of command, out of which the desire for exercising tyranny is apt to spring. Autonomy, both for districts and for organizations, would leave fewer occasions when governments were called upon to make decisions as to other people's concerns. And the abolition of capitalism and the wage system would remove the chief incentive to fear and greed, those correlative passions by which all free life is choked and gagged.
The Problems Of Philosophy Contains online version of this book, written by Bertrand Russell in 1912. http://www.ditext.com/russell/russell.html
Extractions: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE I N the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative criticism seemed out of place. For this reason, theory of knowledge occupies a larger space than metaphysics in the present volume, and some topics much discussed by philosophers are treated very briefly, if at all. I have derived valuable assistance from unpublished writings of G. E. Moore and J. M. Keynes: from the former, as regards the relations of sense-data to physical objects, and from the latter as regards probability and induction. I have also profited greatly by the criticisms and suggestions of Professor Gilbert Murray. W ITH reference to certain statements on pages 44, 75, 131, and 132, it should be remarked that this book was written in the early part of 1912 when China was still an Empire, and the name of the then late Prime Minister did begin with the letter B.
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Extractions: Home FAQ Press Contact Us ... Nobel Prize in Literature Bertrand Russell - Biography Sort and list Nobel Prizes and Nobel Laureates Create a List All Nobel Prizes Nobel Prize Awarded Organizations Women Nobel Laureates Nobel Laureates and Universities Prize category: Physics Chemistry Medicine Literature Peace Economics Bertrand Arthur William Russell In December 1894 he married Miss Alys Pearsall Smith. After spending some months in Berlin studying social democracy, they went to live near Haslemere, where he devoted his time to the study of philosophy. In 1900 he visited the Mathematical Congress at Paris. He was impressed with the ability of the Italian mathematician Peano and his pupils, and immediately studied Peano's works. In 1903 he wrote his first important book, The Principles of Mathematics Political Ideals , 1918) but was prevented by the military authorities. In 1918 he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for a pacifistic article he had written in the
THE ELEMENTS OF ETHICS (1910) By Bertrand Russell The Elements of Ethics, by Bertrand Russell, was first published in 1910, in his Philosophical Essays. (It was composed from several of his previous articles; he describes its http://fair-use.org/bertrand-russell/the-elements-of-ethics/
Extractions: One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of the public expenditure of most civilized Governments consists in payment for past wars or preparation for future wars, the man who lends his money to a Government is in the same position as the bad men in Shakespeare who hire murderers. The net result of the man's economical habits is to increase the armed forces of the State to which he lends his savings. Obviously it would be better if he spent the money, even if he spent it in drink or gambling. All this is only preliminary. I want to say, in all seriousness, that a great deal of harm is being done in the modern world by belief in the virtuousness of work, and that the road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work. First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid. The second kind is capable of indefinite extension: there are not only those who give orders, but those who give advice as to what orders should be given. Usually two opposite kinds of advice are given simultaneously by two organized bodies of men; this is called politics. The skill required for this kind of work is not knowledge of the subjects as to which advice is given, but knowledge of the art of persuasive speaking and writing, i.e. of advertising.
The Analysis Of Mind From Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg Presents The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell. Project Gutenberg Release 2529 Select author names above for additional information and titles http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2529
Bertrand Russell / 100 Welsh Heroes / 100 Arwyr Cymru About 100 Welsh Heroes 12. Bertrand Russell. Thinkers (1469 votes) 1872 – 1970. Greatest British philosopher of the 20th Century. http://www.100welshheroes.com/en/biography/bertrandrussell
Extractions: Thinkers (1469 votes) Greatest British philosopher of the 20th Century. An intellectual giant of the 20th Century, Bertrand Russell was born at Trellech in Monmouthshire and died almost one hundred years later at Penrhyndeudraeth, Merionedd. The sheer breadth of Russell’s work entitles him to be labelled a genuine polymath, yet he defies easy categorization. His studies covered philosophy, logic and mathematics. He was also an essayist and social critic and made formidable contributions on a range of topics including education and religion. Russell was born into a well connected family, his grandfather having twice served as Prime Minister. Following the death of his parents when he was four years old, he was brought up by his grandparents. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge where he obtained first class degrees in both mathematics and moral sciences. He was dismissed from Trinity however in 1916 when he was fined for anti-war activities. This was by no means the only time that Russell was to fall out with the authorities. In the late 1930s he was offered a teaching post at New York’s City College. However following a series of public protests and a judicial decision, which found him morally unfit to teach at the College, the appointment was withdrawn.
Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Biography - S9.com English author, humanist, logician, mathematician, pacifist, and philosopher tried to reduce mathematics to axioms stater and eponym of Russell's paradox 1902 cowrote http://www.s9.com/Biography/Russell-Bertrand-Arthur-William
Extractions: Page last updated: 2:04pm, 25 th Jul '06 "There is... in our day, a powerful antidote to nonsense, which hardly existed in earlier times - I mean science. Science cannot be ignored or rejected, because it is bound up with modern technique; it is essential alike to prosperity in peace and to victory in war. That is, perhaps from an intellectual point of view, the most hopeful feature of our age, and the one which makes it most likely that we shall escape complete submersion in some new or old superstition." "I should scorn to shiver with terror at the thought of annihilation. Happiness is nonetheless true happiness because it must come to an end, nor do thought and love lose their value because they are not everlasting." "If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships."
