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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Russell, Bertrand
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:Routledge classics
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Books that influenced me in youth
  • The importance of Shelley
  • The romance of revolt
  • Revolt in the abstract
  • Disgust and its antidote
  • An education in history
  • The pursuit of truth
  • Part II: Politics and education
  • What is freedom?
  • What is democracy?
  • A scientist's plea for democracy
  • The story of colonization
  • Pros and cons of nationalism
  • The reasoning of Europeans
  • The world i should like to live in
  • Old and young cultures
  • Education for a difficult world
  • University education
  • Part III: Divertissements
  • Cranks
  • The right will prevail or the road to lhasa
  • Newly discovered maxims of la rochefoucauld
  • Nightmares
  • The fisherman's nightmare or magna est veritas
  • The theologian's nightmare
  • Dreams
  • Jowett
  • God
  • Henry the navigator
  • Prince napoleon louis
  • The catalogue
  • Parables
  • Planetary effulgence
  • The misfortune of being out-of-date
  • Murderers' fatherland
  • Part IV: Peace and war
  • Psychology and East-West tension
  • War and peace in my lifetime
  • The social responsibilities of scientists
  • Three essentials for a stable world
  • Population pressure and war
  • Vienna address
  • Manchester address
  • What neutrals can do to save the world
  • The case for British neutralism
  • Can war be abolished?
  • Human life is in danger.

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