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English Political Philosophers: John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, William Paley, Henry Sidgwick
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781155442204
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Chapters: John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, William Paley, Henry Sidgwick, Phillip Blond, Jonathan Wolff, Alan Ryan, John Vowell, Margaret Canovan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 106. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, socialist, pacifist, and social critic. Although he spent most of his life in England, he was born in Wales where he also died, aged 97. Russell led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s. He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his protégé Wittgenstein and his predecessor Frege, and is widely held to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians. He co-authored, with A. N. Whitehead, Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy." Both works have had a considerable influence on logic, mathematics, set theory, linguistics, and philosophy. He was a prominent anti-war activist, championing free trade between nations and anti-imperialism. Russell was imprisoned for his pacifist activism during World War I, campaigned against Adolf Hitler, for nuclear disarmament, criticised Soviet totalitarianism and the United States of America's involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought." Bertrand Russell was born on 18 May 1872 at Cleddon Hall, Trellech, Monmouthshire, Wales, into a liberal family of the British aristocracy. His paternal grandfather, John Russell, 1st Earl R...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4163
Liknande böckerEnglish Political Writers, including Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, William Paley, Jeremy Bentham, William Godwin, Henry Sidgwick, Thomas Hill Green, Jonathan Wolff
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