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Limitations of space make it impracticable to notice them separately; but some account may be given of the picture of Russell and his philosophy which emerges from the work as a whole.

"Western culture must be carried-on by America after the next war," Bertrand Russell, world-renowned author and philosopher, said when interviewed last night. Russell, who addressed the Ford Hall ...

In 1967, a team including Jean-Paul Sartre put the US ‘on trial’ for its actions in Vietnam. Clive Webb’s Vietdamned surveys ...

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Bertrand Russell, for instance, serves as a reminder of intellectual bravery in dark times. Today, such moral clarity is rare but not extinct. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who led the National ...

An extract from Bertrand Russell's essay in Praise of Idleness. In praise of idleness - Bertrand Russell Can't switch off from work? Envy those 'lazy' strikers? In this 1932 essay, Bertrand Russell, ...

Bertrand Russell received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he championed humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought. He was one of ...