BERTRAND RUSSELL

Russell spent the last 15 years of his lie actively campaigning against the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Even at the age of 90, he intervened with heads of state during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when the USA told the Soviets to withdraw nuclear missiles from Cuba or face nuclear attack

“THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS IS TO FACE THE FACT THAT THE WORLD IS HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE” ~ RUSSELL

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The Quest for certainty

His first general philosophy book, published in 1912, was ‘The Problems of Philosophy.’ It contained original ideas and yet, unlike his work in mathematical logic, was accessible to the interested beginner. This was characteristic of all his subsequent books, as of coursed it had been the writing of nearly all the great philosophers. Of special note among his works was one whose very title encapsulated his program as a philosopher: ‘Our knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy,’ published in 1914. Other important books included the ‘The Philosophy of Logical Atomism’ (1918) and ‘The Analysis of Matter’ (1927). Then followed the years in which he was most deeply immersed in his political, social and educational activities. But then came ‘An Enquiry into Meaning and Truth’ (1940), and ‘Human Knowledge -- Its scope and Limits’ (1948). He signed off his career in philosophy with a book that critically surveyed his life’s work, ‘My Philosophical Development,’ published in 1959 ~ Page 197

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It is undesirable,” wrote philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell, “to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supporting it to be true.” ~ Page 199 “HOMO MYSTERIOUS” Author” DAVID BARASH

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