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Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.
Bertrand Russell, the recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature, was one of the most distinguished, influential, and prolific philosophers of the twentieth century. Acquaintance, Knowledge, and Logic brings together ten new essays on Russell's best-known work, The Problems of Philosophy. These essays, by some of the foremost scholars of.
Bertrand Russell, on the other hand, is someone I would enjoy having a beer with. This collection of breezy and witty essays are a pleasure to read. As a person who wholeheartedly can get on board with his skepticism of the work ethic and his embrace of useless knowledge I think kicking back and People said Bush was elected because he was the kind of guy you'd like to have a beer with.
Summary. The Problems of Philosophy is an introduction to the discipline of philosophy, written during a Cambridge lectureship that Russell held in 1912. In it, Russell asks the fundamental question, “Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”.
The debate that took place has become one of the most famous moments in radio history. The two philosophers were Fr. Frederick Copleston S. J., a Jesuit priest and later principal of Heythrop College and Bertrand Russell, veteran CND campaigner and one of the most important philosophers of all time.
Bertrand Russell (Theory of Knowledge, 1913) The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Bertrand Russell (Marriage and Morals, 1929) The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.
Bertrand Russell: A Very Short Bibliography (Section I.30-63.) Introduction and Contents I. BOOKS and COLLECTIONS by BERTRAND RUSSELL (cont.) I.30. In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935). Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950 (1956), ed. Robert C. Marsh.