China, by her resources and her population, is capable of being the greatest power in the world after the United States.......more
’I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctr......more
’China, by her resources and her population, is capable of being the greatest power in the world after the United States......more
’I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctr......more
Many of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that t......more
Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the greatest and most fascinating philosophers of all time. His Tractatus Logico-Philosoph......more
The author is widely regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a brilliant writer and co......more
Logical Atomism is a philosophy that sought to account for the world in all its various aspects by relating it to the st......more
Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort ’to prevent t......more
First published in 1961, Fact and Fiction is a collection of Bertrand Russell s essays that reflect on the books and wr......more
Bertrand Russell remains one of the greatest philosophers and most complex and controversial figures of the twentieth ce......more
Bertrand Russell was renowned for his provocative views on education. Considered an educational innovator, Russell attem......more
First published in 1954, Human Society in Ethics and Politics is Bertrand Russell s last full account of his ethical an......more
Also published under the title of Principals of Social Reconstruction, and written in response to the devastation of Wor......more
Written by one of the twentieth century s most significant thinkers, Freedom and Organization, is considered to be Bert......more
Bertrand Russell is considered to be one of the most significant educational innovators of his time. In this influential......more
First published in 1903, Principles of Mathematics was Bertrand Russell s first major work in print. It was this title ......more
From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Individual Bert......more
First published in 1923, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertrand Russell ......more
First published in 1910, Philosophical Essays is one of Bertrand Russell s earliest works and marks an important period......more
Bertrand Russell was regarded as one of the twentieth century s greatest minds. Well known for his profound knowledge a......more
Our Knowledge of the External World is a compilation of lectures Bertrand Russell delivered in the US in which he questi......more
Marriage and Morals is a compelling cross-cultural examination of individual, familial and societal attitudes towards se......more
According to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws connecting a number of particular fac......more
The Conquest of Happiness is Bertrand Russell s recipe for good living. First published in 1930, it pre-dates the curre......more
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These propositions may seem mild, yet, if accepted, they would absolutely revolutionize human life. With these words B......more
Intolerance and bigotry lie at the heart of all human suffering. So claims Bertrand Russell at the outset of In Praise o......more
Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell s famed atheism. It......more
While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief. Religio......more
First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentie......more
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Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the o......more
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Bertrand Russell was born in 1872 and died in 1970. One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he tra......more
Russell on Religion presents a comprehensive and accessible selection of Bertrand Russell’s writing on religion and rela......more
The Prospects of Industrial Civilization provides a rare glimpse into areas of Russell’s political thought which are oft......more
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