After reading the book, only partly as some of the pages were missing (and the book was way too big) I was taken aback that in a long time nobody had even looked at Russell’s treasure that lay in the re.
In the beginning of my sophomore year in college, I found this dusty old book, an autobiography of Russell in the college library. His contribution to the world of literature is so huge that one may spend a lifetime reading and comprehending it and still have some left. He took up mathematics and philosophy at Trinity College in Cambridge and had a fantastic work done in both areas. He grew up at his grandmother’s place after the early demise of his parents. Russell was born in the year 1872 in a Welsh town. However, one name easily pops up when we talk about philosophy and it is that of a prominent English philosopher Bertrand Russell. There were differences in conclusions and a method needed to.We all use th e word ‘Philosophy’ in our lives with varying broadness without being aware of the actual meaning of it. The distinctive pattern of this movement was individualism with individual solutions rather than social enterprises. Medieval philosophy and politics were regarded as obstructing progress and justifying persecutions. Democratic tendencies led to the recognition that men were born equal, while their later circumstances decided their advantages and disadvantages.
It influenced the property rights, hereditary principle, where the divine right of king was rejected, assigning rights to every community. It was more latitudinarian and Protestant, disproving wars of religion while encouraging commerce and industry, where the middle class received recognition before monarchy or aristocracy. With the rise of liberalism the impact of political and social circumstances upon thinkers needed to be considered.Įarly liberalism occurred in England and Holland, providing religious toleration. Book 3: Chapter 12, Philosophical Liberalism Summary and Analysis
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