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Bertrand Russell
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 548 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 1912–2026, suosituimpiin kuuluu The Atomic Age. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
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Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 1912–2026.
Ces propositions pourront paraitre legeres, mais, si elles etaient suivies, elles revolutionneraient totalement l'existence humaine. C'est avec ces mots que Bertrand Russell ouvre ce qui est en effet un livre revolutionnaire. Prenant pour point de depart l'irrationalite du monde, il offre par contraste un point de vue violemment paradoxal et subversif la croyance en la capacite de la raison a determiner les actions humaines. Parce qu'ils pressentirent les horreurs qui resulterent, dans les annees suivant leur premiere publication en 1928, des passions irrationnelles issues des convictions religieuses et politiques, ces Essais sceptiques furent constamment reimprimes. Aujourd'hui, harceles que nous sommes par les assauts violents du capitalisme, la defense russellienne du scepticisme et de l'independance d'esprit est plus que jamais d'actualite. Par sa prose engagee, il nous guide a travers les problemes philosophiques fondamentaux qui concernent notre vie quotidienne - la liberte, le bonheur, les emotions, l'ethique et les croyances - et nous offre des conseils avises. Quels pourraient etre les effets, demande-t-il ironiquement a ses lecteurs, d'une extension du rationalisme sceptique?
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2011
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Mysticism And Logic: And Other Essays
Bertrand Russell
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2010
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Also published under the title of Principals of Social Reconstruction, and written in response to the devastation of World War I, Why Men Fight lays out Bertrand Russell's ideas on war, pacifism, reason, impulse, and personal liberty. He argues that the individualistic approach of traditional liberalism has reached its limits and that when individuals live passionately, they will have no desire for war or killing. Conversely, excessive restraint or reason causes us to live unnaturally and with hostility toward those who are unlike ourselves. This formidable work greatly contributed to Russell’s fame as a formidable social critic and anti-war activist.
First published in 1954, Human Society in Ethics and Politics is Bertrand Russell’s last full account of his ethical and political positions relating to both politics and religion. Ethics, he argues, are necessary to man because of the conflict between intelligence and impulse – if one were without the other, there would be no place for ethics. Man’s impulses and desires are equally social and solitary. Politics and ethics are the means by which we as a society and as individuals become socially purposeful and moral codes inculcate our rules of action.
First published in 1923, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertrand Russell's works on modern society. It offers a rare glimpse into often-ignored subtleties of his political thought and in it he argues that industrialism is a threat to human freedom, since it is fundamentally linked with nationalism. His proposal for one government for the whole world as the ultimate solution, along with his argument that the global village and prevailing political democracy should be its eventual results, is both provocative and thoroughly engaging.
Bertrand Russell was renowned for his provocative views on education. Considered an educational innovator, Russell attempted to create the perfect learning institution. Despite the failure of this practical vision, it did not stop him from continuing to strive towards inventing and arguing for a system of education free from repression. In Education and the Social Order, Russell dissects the motives behind educational theory and practice, and in doing so lays out original and controversial arguments for the reformation of the education of the individual.
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Bertrand Russell
Routledge
2009
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Logical Atomism is a philosophy that sought to account for the world in all its various aspects by relating it to the structure of the language in which we articulate information. In The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Bertrand Russell, with input from his young student Ludwig Wittgenstein, developed the concept and argues for a reformed language based on pure logic. Despite Russell’s own future doubts surrounding the concept, this founding and definitive work in analytical philosophy by one of the world’s most significant philosophers is a remarkable attempt to establish a novel way of thinking.
Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest philosophers and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth century. Here, in this frank, humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life – introducing the people, events and influences that shaped the man he was to become. Originally published in three volumes in the late 1960s, Autobiography by Bertrand Russell is a revealing recollection of a truly extraordinary life written with the vivid freshness and clarity that has made Bertrand Russell’s writings so distinctively his own.
Bertrand Russell is considered to be one of the most significant educational innovators of his time. In this influential and controversial work, Russell calls for an education that would liberate the child from unthinking obedience to parental and religious authority. He argues that if the basis of all education is knowledge wielded by love then society can be transformed. One of Bertrand Russell’s most definitive works, the remarkable ideas and arguments in On Education are just as insightful and applicable today as they were on first publication in 1926.
Written by one of the twentieth century’s most significant thinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to be Bertrand Russell’s major work on political history. It traces the main causes of political change during a period of one hundred years, which he argues were predominantly influenced by three major elements – economic technique, political theory and certain significant individuals. In the witty, approachable style that has made Bertrand Russell’s works so revered, he explores in detail the major forces and events that shaped the nineteenth century.