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| | Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the book, Russell considers a number of logical arguments for the existence of God, including the first cause argument, the natural-law argument, the argument from design, and moral arguments. | | | For most of his adult life, however, Russell thought it very unlikely that there was a god, and he maintained that religion is little more than superstition and, despite any positive effects that religion might have, it is largely harmful to people. | | | Russell's views on religion can be found in his popular book, Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects (ISBN 0671203231), whose title essay was a talk given March 6, 1927 at Battersea Town Hall, under the auspices of the South London Branch of the National Secular Society, UK. |
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| | Bertrand Russell: Positive Atheism's Big List of Bertrand Russell Quotations |
| | In the so-called Ages of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with all its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burned as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practiced upon all sorts of people in the name of religion. | | | So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others. | | | The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed, the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. |
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| | The Bertrand Russell Gallery |
| | During the late 1920s and early 1930s, as his marriage to Dora broke down and as he lost faith in Beacon Hill, Russell continued to write books intended to emancipate readers from what he saw as the fetters of outmoded religious belief, restrictive marriages, repressed attitudes towards human sexuality and authoritarian education practices. | | | Looking for societies that transcended the warlike flaws of the west, he visited Russia in 1920 eager to support the Bolsheviks only to come away repelled by the brutality, lack of liberty and similarities to fanatical religions that he found there. | | | As their passion waned she became a lifelong confidante. |
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| | Bertrand Russell |
| | A Free Man's Worship, by John Lenz (BRS) | | | Let him loose to spread joy everywhere." Bertrand Russell | | | Why I Am Not A Christian, from Ryan Breedon |
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| | Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Belief based on faith concludes that argument is useless and resorts to “force either in the form of persecution or by stunting and distorting the minds of the young whenever [it] has the power to control their education.&; | | | Under the influence of the symbolic logic of Giuseppe Peano, Russell tried to show that mathematics could be explained by the rules of formal logic. | | | If Russell’s logic was not always unassailable, his life showed that ethical relativism could be combined with a passionate social conscience, and that passionate commitment could be stated without dogmatism. |
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| | Russell |
| | Throughout his life, Russell was an outspoken critic of organized religion as both unfounded and deceptive; he detailed its harmful social consequences in "Why I Am Not a Christian" (1927) and defended an agnostic alternative in "A Free Man's Worship" (1903). | | | Orphaned at the age of four, Bertrand Russell studied both mathematics and philosophy (with McTaggart) at Cambridge University, where he later taught. | | | Although Russell's philosophical positions were soon eclipsed by those of Wittgenstein and the logical positivists, his model of the possibilities for analytic thought remains influential. |
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http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/russ.htm
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| | The Bertrand Russell Archives |
| | Russell welcomes The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1928. | | | Russell writes on philosophy and "The Free Man's Worship" to Prof. | | | BRACERS Correspondents is an index of some 35,100 persons and groups who corresponded with Russell, with the total number of letters to and from each one. |
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| | Bertrand Russell |
| | Bertrand Russell, letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell (18th November, 1914) | | | Russell's activities in the the NCF resulted in him being sacked from his post as a lecturer at Cambridge University. | | | Russell wrote: "I am forced to conclude that they were condemned on account of their political opinions." His efforts were unsuccessful and the men were executed on 23rd August 1927. |
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| | Russell's Paradox |
| | These are the questions," Frege notes, "raised by Mr Russell's communication." | | | Similarly, if R is not a member of itself, then by definition it must be a member of itself. | | | Russell's type theory thus appears in two versions: the "simple theory" of 1903 and the "ramified theory" of 1908. |
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/russell-paradox
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| | McMaster University: The Bertrand Russell Research Centre |
| | The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, and the Russell listserv, Russell-l, are the three that will be best known to people who do not use the Archives on a regular basis. | | | Russell is now published by the Centre, which has also taken over the work of the former Bertrand Russell Editorial Project. | | | In a massive and seminal series of publications in the early years of the last century Russell transformed logic and placed it at the centre of philosophic inquiry. |
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| | Bertrand Russell - Biography |
| | In the autumn of the same year he went to China to lecture on philosophy at the Peking university. | | | 1924) Russell exposed his views on his philosophy, preceded by a few words on historical development. | | | Russell was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1908, and re-elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1944. |
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| | Why I Am Not A Christian |
| | Bertrand Russell in that he is in accord with the political and other opinions expressed. | | | It should be added that the editor is willing to share full responsibility with the Hon. |
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| | Russell summary |
| | In a long and varied career Russell published a vast number of books on logic, theory of knowledge, and many other topics. | | | Nobel prizes site (A Biography of Russell his Nobel lecture and his Nobel prize presentation speech) |
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| | The Bertrand Russell Society | Russell's Writings |
| | Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel (1917; book), pp. | | | A list of electronic texts of Russell's books and essays. | | | Bertrand Russell's Best (Quotes, 1958), edited by Robert Egner (source, Danilo Mirkovic) |
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| | You will shortly be redirected to the home page of the Bertrand Russell Archives: http://www.mcmaster.ca/russdocs/russell.htm |
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| | Bertrand Russell |
| | Why Bertrand Russell Was Not A Christian (1996) by Rev. Ralph A. Smith (Off Site) | | | Apologetics in Practice (Off Site) by Greg Bahnsen |
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| | Bertrand Russell Society |
| | Join Russell-l – The Online Discussion Group for Bertrand Russell Studies | | | In memoriam: the BRS mourns Harry Ruja, a founder and leader, and Trevor Banks. | | | May 27-28, 2006 – The 33rd ANNUAL MEETING of the Bertrand Russell Society |
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