The Life of Bertrand RussellThe eloquent and intimate biography of one of the most significant figures of the last century. Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Born into the high world of the Whig aristocracy, among people for whom Waterloo was still almost a personal memory, Russell lived to inspire the campaign against nuclear warfare. He was imprisoned in 1918 for his Pacifism. Ronald Clark, with access to a mass of material, provides a fascinating and graphic portrait of the man. There is virtually no aspect of Russell's long life to which something new - and often unexpected - is not added by this remarkable and incisive book. |
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... questions of philosophy [my] position, in all its chief features, [is] derived from Mr G. E. Moore'. And for the first decade or more of the twentieth century the core of his views on ethics – that good and bad, right and wrong, were ...
... questions of philosophy [my] position, in all its chief features, [is] derived from Mr G. E. Moore'. And for the first decade or more of the twentieth century the core of his views on ethics – that good and bad, right and wrong, were ...
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... books in the philosophy of the sciences, growing gradually more concrete as I passed from mathematics to biology; I thought I would also write a series of books on social and political questions, growing gradually more abstract.
... books in the philosophy of the sciences, growing gradually more concrete as I passed from mathematics to biology; I thought I would also write a series of books on social and political questions, growing gradually more abstract.
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... question 'How is Geometry Possible?' At first glance there seemed to be two ways of answering this, and of thus determining the logical relations of the most elementary constituents of space. The answer offered by the Idealists was that ...
... question 'How is Geometry Possible?' At first glance there seemed to be two ways of answering this, and of thus determining the logical relations of the most elementary constituents of space. The answer offered by the Idealists was that ...
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... question appeared to have only one answer: if it was it wasn't, and if it wasn't it was. 'It is an ancient puzzle and nobody treated that sort of thing as anything but a joke until it was found that it had to do with such important and ...
... question appeared to have only one answer: if it was it wasn't, and if it wasn't it was. 'It is an ancient puzzle and nobody treated that sort of thing as anything but a joke until it was found that it had to do with such important and ...
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... questions; as I say in the Preface, my premises are simply assumed. But I hope some day, when the second volume of my present work is finished, to attempt something on the more purely philosophical side of logic. Hitherto I have been ...
... questions; as I say in the Preface, my premises are simply assumed. But I hope some day, when the second volume of my present work is finished, to attempt something on the more purely philosophical side of logic. Hitherto I have been ...
Contents
Principia Mathematica | |
The New Romantic | |
A Long March Downhill | |
Start of an Experiment | |
End of an Experiment | |
The American Ordeal | |
A Member of the Establishment | |
The Last Attachment | |
Towards a Short War with Russia? | |
Into the New World | |
Ottoline | |
Enter Wittgenstein | |
Ebbing Tide | |
An American Adventure | |
Against the Stream | |
Into Battle | |
Colette | |
From War to Peace | |
TurningPoint | |
The Genesis of Protest | |
The Rise of Ralph Schoenman | |
The Enigmatic Friendship | |
Once More His Own | |
Private Memorandum concerning Ralph | |
Sources and Bibliography | |
Notes and References | |
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