The Philosophy of Mr. B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll (Classic Reprint): With an Appendix of Leading Passages From Certain Other Works: With an Appendix of Leading Passages from Certain Other Works (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Jourdain, Philip E. B.

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ISBN 10: 1330283643 ISBN 13: 9781330283646

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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This book explores the philosophical ideas of Bertrand Russell, a prominent British philosopher of the early 20th century. It examines Russell's foundational principles of logic, his views on truth and knowledge, and his contributions to the philosophy of mathematics and science. The book also discusses Russell's social and political activism, including his pacifism and his advocacy for nuclear disarmament. Through a comprehensive analysis of Russell's work, the book provides a deeper understanding of his philosophical system and its impact on the development of modern thought.

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Excerpt from The Philosophy of Mr. B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll: With an Appendix of Leading Passages From Certain Other Works

The quaint name of Laws of Thought, which is often applied to the principles of Logic, has given rise to confusion in two ways: in the first place, the Laws, unlike other laws, cannot be broken, even in thought and, in the second place, people think that the Laws have something to do with holding for the Operations of their minds, just as laws of nature hold for events in the world around us.i6 But that the laws are not psychological laws follows from the facts that a thing may be true even if nobody believes it, and something else may be false if everybody believes it. Such, it may be remarked, is usually the case.

Perhaps the most frequent instance of the assumption that the laws of logic are mental is the treatment of an identity as if its validity were an affair of our permission. Some people suggest to others that they should let bygones be bygones. Another important piece of evidence that the truth of propositions has nothing to do with mind is given by the phrase it is morally certain that such-and such a proposition is true. Now, in the first place, morality, curiously enough, seems to be closely associated with mental acts: we have professorships and lectureships of, and examinations in, mental and moral philosophy. In the second place, it is plain that a morally certain propo sition is a highly doubtful one. Thus it is as vain to expect any information about our minds from a study of the Laws of Thought as it would be to expect a description of a certain social event from Miss E. E. C. Jones's book An Introduction to General Logic.

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When Mr. Brtrnd Rssll, following the advice of Mr. Wllm Jms, again "got into touch with reality" and in July 1911 was torn to pieces by Anti-Suffragists, many of whom were political opponents of Mr. Rssll and held strong views on the Necessity of Protection of Trade and person, a manuscript which was almost ready for the press was fortunately saved from the flames on the occasion when a body of eager champions of the Sacredness of Personal Property burnt the late Mr. Rssll's house. This manuscript, together with some further fragments found in the late Mr. Rssll's own interleaved copy of his Prayer-Book of Free Man's Worship, which was fortunately rescued with a few of the great author's other belongings, was first given to the world in the Monist for October 1911 and January 1916, and has here been arranged and completed by some other hitherto undecipherable manuscripts. The title of the above-mentioned Prayer-Book, it may perhaps be mentioned, was apparently suggested to Mr. Rssll by that of the Essay on "The Free Man's Worship" in the Philosophical Essays (London, 1910, pp. 59-70) of Mr. Rssll's distinguished contemporary, Mr. Bertrand Russell, from whom much of Mr. Rssll's philosophy was derived. And, indeed, the influence of Mr. Russell extended even beyond philosophical views to arrangement and literary style.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330283643
• ISBN 13: 9781330283646
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100
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