Introduction to Russell

Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher, mathematician, logician, historian and writer, is the main founder of analytical philosophy and the advocate and organizer of the world peace movement. His major works include History of Western Philosophy, Philosophical Problems, Psychoanalysis, and Analysis of Things.

/kloc-won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 0/950 and was awarded the British Jiaxing Medal. 1967 organized the Stockholm War Crimes Tribunal to condemn the US policy in Vietnam. 1970 died at home in Wales.

Russell not only made remarkable achievements in philosophy, logic and mathematics, but also made achievements in many fields such as education, sociology, politics and literature. Great changes have taken place in his philosophy. He believed in the New hegelianism in his early days, believed in the existence of absolute and * * *, and regarded mathematics as evidence of Plato's thought. Later, he defected from absolute idealism to new realism with Moore.

Russell is a liberal, but his natural radical attitude and homosexual feelings towards all resistance behaviors have made him deeply sympathetic to the socialist anti-poverty struggle, so his liberalism is not classical liberalism, but liberalism with a strong socialist tendency.

As a philosopher, Russell's thought experienced several stages, such as absolute idealism, logical atomism, new realism and neutral monism, and mainly contributed to mathematical logic, from which he established logical atomism and new realism, making him one of the founders of modern analytical philosophy.

In Ode to Leisure (1935), Russell was one step ahead of Keynes and challenged the traditional economists who always advocated thrift and opposed consumption. He wrote: "As long as a person spends his income on consumption, he also sends bread to other people's mouths.

Russell made great contributions to the development of educational theory. He pointed out: "Education should cultivate the desire to seek truth, rather than believing that a particular creed is truth."

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