What I Believe

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What I Believe

Bertrand Russell 2004

E-Book: 134 English Pages

Publisher: Routledge

Price: 1000 Toman

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Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell’s famed atheism. It is also one of the most notorious. Used as evidence in a 1940 court case in which Russell was declared unfit to teach college-level philosophy, What I Believe was to become one of his most defining works. The ideas contained within were and are controversial, contentious and – to the religious – downright blasphemous. A remarkable work, it remains the best concise introduction to Russell’s thought.

Review

‘Bertrand Russell wrote the best English prose of any twentieth-century philosopher.’

—- Anthony Howard, The Times

‘Bertrand Russell attributed religion to a primitive terror of the unknown and the desire for a kindly older brother to stand alongside us.’

—- The Age

Biography

Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970). Philosopher, mathematician, educational and seexual reformer, pacifist, prolific letter writer, author and columnist, Bertrand Russell was one of the most influential and widely known intellectual figures of the twentieth century. In 1950 he was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in 1950 for his extensive contributions to world literature and for his “rationality and humanity, as a fearless champion of free speech and free thought in the West.”
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