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| | |  meaningless: Encyclopedia - Bertrand RussellThe Right Honourable Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970), was an influential British logician, philosopher, and mathematician, working mostly in the 20th century. A prolific writer, Bertrand Russell was also a populariser of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics, ranging from very serious issues to the mundane. Continuing a family tradition in political affairs, he was a prominent liberal as well as a socialist and anti-war activist for most of his long life. ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Bertrand Russell - Russell's philosophical work
Bertrand Russell - Analytic philosophy.
Russell is generally recognised as one of the founders of analytic philosophy, indeed, even of its several branches. At the beginning of the 20th century, alongside G. E. Moore, Russell was largely responsible for the British "revolt against Idealism", a philosophy greatly influenced by Georg Hegel and his British apostle, F. H. Bradley. This revolt was echoed 30 years later in Vienna by the logical positivists' "revolt against metaphysics". Russell was particularly appalle ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Afterlife - Afterlife as a belief Many people believe in an afterlife. It is generally described as a non-verifiable and non-falsifiable belief within a religion, because it is generally accepted as beyond the experiential knowledge or casual accessibility of most people (see esoteric knowledge). As a result, the popular mind relies on various sources for concepts about afterlife, arranged below in presumed order of reliability:
Testimony of individuals who claim experiential knowledge of facets of afterlife
by having died and then been sent back to thi ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Bertrand Russell - Russell's activism Political and social activism occupied much of Russell's time for most of his long life, which makes his prodigious and seminal writing on a wide range of technical and non-technical subjects all the more remarkable.
Russell remained politically active to the end, writing and exhorting world leaders and lending his name to various causes. Some maintain that during his last few years he gave his youthful followers too much license and that they used his name for some outlandish purposes that a more attentive Russell would not have appr ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Bertrand Russell - Influence on philosophy It would be difficult to overstate Russell's influence on modern philosophy, especially in the English-speaking world. While others were also influential, notably, Frege, Moore, and Wittgenstein, more than any other person, Russell made analysis the dominant approach to philosophy. Moreover, he is the founder or, at the very least, the prime mover of its major branches and themes, including several versions of the philosophy of language, formal logical analysis, and the philosophy of science. The various analytic movements throughout th ...
See also:Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell - Biography, Bertrand Russell - Russell's philosophical work, Bertrand Russell - Analytic philosophy, Bertrand Russell - Epistemology, Bertrand Russell - Ethics, Bertrand Russell - Logical atomism, Bertrand Russell - Logic and mathematics, Bertrand Russell - Philosophy of language, Bertrand Russell - Philosophy of science, Bertrand Russell - Religion and theology, Bertrand Russell - Influence on philosophy, Bertrand Russell - Russell's activism, Bertrand Russell - Pacifism war and nuclear weapons, Bertrand Russell - Communism and socialism, Bertrand Russell - Women's suffrage, Bertrand Russell - Sexuality, Bertrand Russell - Eugenics and race, Bertrand Russell - Russell summing up his life, Bertrand Russell - Comments about Russell, Bertrand Russell - As a man, Bertrand Russell - As a philosopher, Bertrand Russell - As a writer and his place in history, Bertrand Russell - As a mathematician and logician, Bertrand Russell - As an activist, Bertrand Russell - As a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bertrand Russell - From a daughter, Bertrand Russell - Quotes, Bertrand Russell - Asides, Bertrand Russell - Succession Read more here: » Bertrand Russell: Encyclopedia II - Bertrand Russell - Influence on philosophy |
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Bertrand Russell - Russell summing up his life Admitting to failure in helping the world to conquer war and in winning his perpetual intellectual battle for eternal truths, Russell wrote this in "Reflections on My Eightieth Birthday", which also served as the last entry in the last volume of his autobiography, published in his 98th year:
"I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in im ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Bertrand Russell - Asides Actor Michael Wisher based the voice of Davros in the 1975 Doctor Who story Genesis of the Daleks on Russell.
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See also:Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell - Biography, Bertrand Russell - Russell's philosophical work, Bertrand Russell - Analytic philosophy, Bertrand Russell - Epistemology, Bertrand Russell - Ethics, Bertrand Russell - Logical atomism, Bertrand Russell - Logic and mathematics, Bertrand Russell - Philosophy of language, Bertrand Russell - Philosophy of science, Bertrand Russell - Religion and theology, Bertrand Russell - Influence on philosophy, Bertrand Russell - Russell's activism, Bertrand Russell - Pacifism war and nuclear weapons, Bertrand Russell - Communism and socialism, Bertrand Russell - Women's suffrage, Bertrand Russell - Sexuality, Bertrand Russell - Eugenics and race, Bertrand Russell - Russell summing up his life, Bertrand Russell - Comments about Russell, Bertrand Russell - As a man, Bertrand Russell - As a philosopher, Bertrand Russell - As a writer and his place in history, Bertrand Russell - As a mathematician and logician, Bertrand Russell - As an activist, Bertrand Russell - As a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Bertrand Russell - From a daughter, Bertrand Russell - Quotes, Bertrand Russell - Asides, Bertrand Russell - Succession Read more here: » Bertrand Russell: Encyclopedia II - Bertrand Russell - Asides |
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Bertrand Russell - Comments about Russell
Bertrand Russell - As a man.
"Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man."
— A.J. Ayer, Bertrand Russell, NY: Viking Press, 1972.
Bertrand Russell - As a philosopher.
"It is difficult to overstate the extent to which Russell's thought dominated twentieth century analytic philosophy: virtually every strand in its development either originated with him o ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Cube film - Plot summary Each cube within the maze is either a safe cube, or is equipped with a gruesomely fatal device (e.g. a "sushi machine" that dices the occupant into small pieces or a device that sprays highly acidic liquid onto the occupant). Initially they test each cube they want to enter by first tossing a boot into it. However, this method fails within minutes: Rennes, the 'Wren,' an escape artist who has broken out of six or seven different high-security prisons, dies horribly in a b ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Afterlife - Related studies The study of views of the afterlife is a concern of Eschatology, which deals with the soul, the resurrection of the dead, the messianic era, and the end of the world.
The question of whether or not there is life after death is closely related to the mind-body problem, and like that problem is one of the classic problems of so-called rational psychology and hence of one (now largely outdated) notion of the scope of metaphysics.
The later works of Emanuel Swedenborg present one of the most comprehensive and systematic descriptions of th ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Afterlife - Afterlife as reincarnation Another afterlife concept which is found among Hindus, Buddhists, and Wiccans is reincarnation, whether as humans, animals, or as spiritual beings. One consequence of the Hindu and Buddhist beliefs is that our current lives are also an afterlife, and both Hindus and Buddhists interpret events in our current life as being consequences of actions taken in previous lives.
Some Neopagans believe in personal reincarnation, whereas some believe that the energy of one's soul reintegrates with a continuum of such energy whic ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Afterlife - Afterlife as reward or punishment One notion of afterlife which is common to Judaism (see the afterlife and olam haba ["world to come"] ), most sects of Christianity, and Islam is that human souls go on for eternity to a place of happiness or torment, such as heaven, hell, or purgatory or limbo.
Many religions hold that after death people get reward or punishment based on their deeds or faith.
The Christian Bible, for example, contains the words of Jesus: "The measure you give will be the measure you get." (Mark 4:24). For many, belief in an afterlife is ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Afterlife - Philosophical arguments Some non-believers in an afterlife, influenced by positivism (philosophy), have argued that claims of an afterlife are unverifiable and unfalsifiable, and therefore cognitively meaningless. Some have argued that, on the contrary, particular claims concerning the nature of the afterlife are verifiable and falsifiable: all one has to do to verify/falsify them is die. On the other hand, they argue, the belief in the absence of an afterlife can be attacked as vacuous on the grounds that the statement "I cease to exist" is unverifiable, unfalsifi ...
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| | | | meaningless: Encyclopedia II - Afterlife - Criticism Upon death, brain activity ceases and a person's body begins to decompose. This marks the end of the individual's mind in the physical world. The fundamental belief of an afterlife is that there exists a non-physical means (a soul or spirit) for the mind to survive the brain's destruction and continue to function in a non-physical world.
Occam's Razor is a strong counter to this belief. There are two basic alternatives to be compared:
When you die, your mind ceases to function and your body decomposes.
When you die, your mind continues to function despite the physical destruction of your brain, continuing its ex ...
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