Russell, Bertrand : Bertrand Arthur William (1872-1970), logician & philosopher.
... Oxford; Ross, W.D., The Right and the Good, Clarendon Press, 1930, Oxford; Brink, D., Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 1981, Cambridge. 45 Vide., Russell, Bertrand, Unwin Paperbacks, 1984, London, (particularly chapter seventeen, "The Happy Man". Towards the end of the chapter, Russell writes: "I have written in this book as a hedonist, that is to say, ...
... 50,51, 207 Roy, Dwijendralal, 76, 538 Roy, M. N., 287, 704fn Roy, Motilal, 367,370ff, 374,381,391,525, 527,540,574 Roy, Rammohan, 13ff, 16,17,19,25,336 Russell, Bertrand, 566,574-75 Russell, G. W., 37 Sakhare Baba, 274 Samuel, Viscount, 422fh Sanjivani, 229, 317, 331, 336 Sanyal, P., 734, 737,739, 750 Sapru, Sir ...
... Rakshasas, 46 Rama, 58 Ramakrishna, 116, 128, 141, 160, 243, 247,383 Raphael, 210 Ravana, 58 Ravel, 427 Red Sea, 324 Ribhus, the, 208 Rome, 199,421 Rudra, 160, 163, 208 Russell, Bertrand, 56 Russo-Japanese War, 213 SAHARA,324 St. Augustine, 73 St. Francis of Assisi, 243 St. (}enevieve, 199 St. Matthew, 186 St. Paul, 73 St. Vincent de Paul, 411 Sankhya ...
... 212 Romantic Revival, the, 207, 212 Rome, 16, 25, 72, 119, 206, 238-9, 245 Rossetti, 151 Rousseau, 113, 145 Roy, D. L., 192 Rumi 280 Russell, Bertrand, 140, 317, 326-7 Russia... 81, 91, 104, 106, 125, 207 Russian Revolution, 101, 207 SANKHYA(S), 139, 222, 315, 327, 349 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 348, 351-2, 375-7 ...
... the true being on whatever plane it manifests—physical, vital, mental, psychic. Rig—veda —the Veda of the Riks (words of illumination), the most ancient of the sacred books of India. Russell, Bertrand —(1872-1970), English philosopher. Sachchidananda (Sat-Chit-Ananda) —the One Divine Being with a triple aspect of Existence (Sat), Consciousness (Chit) and Delight (Ananda). God is Sachchidananda; ...
... Jules, 186 Romanticism, 87-8 Romantics, the, 87, 186 Rome, 117 Romeo, 176 Rousseau, 186, 274 -The Social Contract, 274 Rudra(s), 28, 30, 56,339 Rudriyas, 31 Russell, Bertrand, 114 Russia, 253, 294, 298 Ruysbroeck, 114 SADHYAS,28-9 Sainte Beuve, 62 Samain, Albert, 65n -Au Flanes du Vase, 65n -"Pannyre aux talons d'or", 65 Sarama, 13 ...
... 1950-70 — Struggle for World Peace and Nuclear Disarmament. 1970(Febrary,2) — Death of Bertrand Russell. Suggestions for further reading Russell, Bertrand. A Free Man' s Worship and other Essays. London: Alien & Unwin, 1976. A History of Western Philosophy. London:. Alien & Unwin, 1979. Autobiography of Bertrand Russell. London: ...
... Life of Greece. New York: Simon &Schuster, 1966 Hare, R.M. Plato. Oxford University Press, 1982. Plato, The Last Days of Socrates. Translates by Hugh Tredennick. Penguin Books, 1961. Russell, Bertrand. A History of Western Philosophy. London: Unwin Paperbaks, 1979. Taylor,A. E. Socrates. 1933 Page 93 ...
... The Good Teacher and The Good Pupil Bertrand Russell at the age of nine What the Educator Needs and What His Pupils Should Acquire Introduction Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) has been acknowledged as one of the leading mathematicians of our times. His philosophical writings have made a great impact on contemporary philosophical thought. His writings... in experimental education, Russell had written a book entitled On Education — Especially in Early Childhood, first published in 1926. In it he examined the postulates of modern educational theory and stated what he thought should be the aims of education. He laid emphasis on the 1. Founder of the well-known experimental school named Summerhill. 2. Bertrand Russel, Autobiography (London:... fears obstruct the road to happiness and freedom. But love can conquer fear, and if we love our children nothing can make us withhold the great gift which it is in our power to bestow. From Bertrand Russell, On Education (London: Unwin Paperbacks, 1985), pp. 203-06. Untruthfulness, as a practice, is almost always a product of fear. The child brought up without fear will be truthful, not in virtue ...
... Ibid., p.2 6. Sri Aurobindo's poem "Divine Worker" that describes the state of consciousness of the divine worker is appended at Appendix VIII (p.157) 7. Quoted by Bertrand Russell in his History of Western Philosophy, paperback edition, 1996, p.270 8. William James, Varieties of Religious Experience, Bames & Noble Books, New York, paperback edition, 2004 ...
... photo has to be clear.) A word about the title of the book. I saw somewhere a book by Dilip Kumar Roy titled “Among the Great”, wherein he has written about some well-known persons he met like Bertrand Russell (if I remember right) and others. That title gave me the cue for this book — as I have spoken mostly of persons who were not much in the “public eye” so to say. A few, of course, were “Great” ...
... Bertrand Russell I cannot help feeling that to apply this stricture to even a part of Rollandian, Tagorean and Aurobindonian aims is really not to understand their depths - and to take apparent and outward humanitarianism as the only one, the sole true one. A non-understanding no less of a part of these aims and, into the bargain, that of Gandhism itself is Bertrand Russell's... acutely modern and at the same time steeped in rich traditions, deeply Indian but no less widely international for that. While being a revelation of the core of Romain Rolland, Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, his book is also a subtle disclosure of his own being — a kind of indirect mental autobiography written with the aid of five world figures. ... voluptuary or the drunkard." To redress the apparent lopsidedness a statement of this kind argues in Russell, Roy opines that it is just a conversational emphasis and that Russell does not really leave the boons of mysticism out of the picture. I am afraid they are left out; for to admit, as Russell does, that equal in value to the scientific pursuit of knowledge are the creation and enjoyment ...
... many-sided, acutely modern and at the same time steeped in rich traditions, deeply Indian but no less widely international for that. While being a revelation of the core of Romain Rolland, Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo, his book is also a subtle disclosure of his own being - a kind of indirect mental autobiography written with the aid of five world-figures. I said... nothing to the vast multitude. Its only tangible effect seems to be that it gives a swelled head to a few and sows aversion and contempt where there should be sympathy and understanding." Bertrand Russell I cannot help feeling that to apply this stricture to even a part of Rollandian, Tagorean and Aurobindonian aims is really not to Page 172 understand their depths -... - and to take apparent and outward humanitarianism as the only one, the sole true one. A non-understanding no less of a part of these aims and, into the bargain, that of Gandhism itself is Bertrand Russell's "limpid crystalline thought". He is the pure scientific intellect - not standing quite beyond the voice of feeling and whatever is connected with religion but remaining uncoloured by them in its ...
... which he has not answered Page 67 Bertrand Russell is: what then is existence? Next, I would like to consider Bertrand Russell's objection to the Ontological Argument which is very similar to that of Kant but presented in a new logical form. 2. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970 C.E.) According to Bertrand Russell, there is no such thing as existence apart from the... argument, Hegel (1770-1831 C. E.) reestablished it within the framework of his own metaphysical system. However, Kant's criticism of the Ontological Argument came to be reformulated in a new way by Bertrand Russell in the context of his theory of descriptions. Most of the contemporary philosophers have come to think that the ontological argument is not successful, although thinkers like Norman Malcolm (1911-1990... the word 'existence' occurs, it ought to be reduced in the terms of the logic of descriptions. According to Russell, the word 'existence' has been misused throughout the history of the world, and, it has created muddle-headedness in the world. Page 69 Against this background Russell argues that all statements that are made must be logical. And in his famous theory of descriptions he states ...
... to reach, and where none may tarry long. In modern times, Darwin has formulated in Biology the law of evolution, and its formula is that of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest. Bertrand Russell, describing the law of struggle in another context, points out: One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief... life; on him and all his race is raised the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way... 1 Bertrand Russell represents the materialist or neutralist view of the law of struggle. But even the opposite view, the spiritual view of the universe, cannot be blind to the law of struggle which operates in the... × × Bertrand Russell: Freeeman's Worship and Other Essays, Unwin Paper Back, 1976, p.l9 × Sri Aurobindo: Essays ...
... that the development of science should be supplemented by enormous development of human goodness. Bertrand Russell has pointed out that there are two ancient evils that science, unwisely used, may intensify: they are tyranny and war. In an important study of the theme of science and values, Bertrand Russell declared: There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should ...
... Anatole France , Les dieux ont soif (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1965), p. 146.—Ed. × Bertrand Russell , The Conquest of Happiness (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1943), p. 160. × In Yoga it is... what is behind his philosophy of Aesthetics. 19 December 1936 Page 558 Russell's Introvert We are all prone to the malady of the introvert, who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. 2 I have not forgotten Russell, but I have neglected him, first, for want of time, second because for the moment I... his own ego? But that I suppose would include 999,999 men out of every million. What are external things? Russell is a mathematician. Are mathematical formulae external things—even though they exist here only in the World-Mind and the mind of Man? If not, is Page 559 Russell as mathematician an introvert? Again, Yajnavalkya says that one loves the wife not for the sake of the wife, but ...
... among the French is more for an economic advantage. SATYENDRA: Chastity doesn't seem to exist in France. NIRODBARAN: That is why modernists say chastity is a superstition. SRI AUROBINDO: Bertrand Russell? Chastity is considered a moral need which one outgrows as soon as the need is over. NIRODBARAN: Morality is also regarded as a superstition. But isn't there something good in chastity? ...
... Confucius and a Curious Classification A correspondent echoes the "intrigued" uncertainty felt by Bertrand Russell about a saying of Confucius. "Men of virtue," declares Confucius, "love the mountains, men of learning the sea." A very attractive classification, admits Bertrand Russell but he scratches his head and confesses himself beaten. I think it is not really too curious or cryptic: the ...
... with the ground upon which the reasoning dances. Logic after all is only a measured dance of the mind, nothing else. Page 197 The day before yesterday I was telling someone how Bertrand Russell, in his In Praise of Idleness, predicted with almost irrefutable logic the coming collapse of war-mad Europe seized with lunacy born of horror on the one hand and greed on the other. Just listen:... 1938 were written to Dilip Kumar Roy, who was a close friend of Subhas Chandra Bose.—Ed. × Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays ( London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935 ), pp. 35-36. × ... therefore, to acquire any knowledge except such as will help us in the fight for whatever it may happen to be that we think important." 8 What would the rational Subhas, himself a worshipper of Russell's keen logic, say to this cynicism? Poor Subhas! But he is a politician and the rationality of politicians has perforce to move within limits; if they were to allow themselves to be as clear-minded ...
... nineteenth century.” 7 “In the early nineteenth century even Charles Darwin would graduate from Cambridge University believing that the world was six thousand years old, give or take.” 8 As Bertrand Russell reminded us: “Nobody nowadays believes that the world was created in 4004 BC; but not so very long ago scepticism on this point was thought an abominable crime.” 9 It is worth reflecting on... × Stephen Baxter: Revolutions in the Earth, p. 17. × Bertrand Russell on Religion, p. 177. × John Carey (ed.): The Faber Book of Science, p. 136. ...
... processes. Rather, mind and matter are both the aspects of a single reality which manifests itself through their opposition as well as interplay - a reality not "neutral" in its "stuff" a la Bertrand Russell but more luminous than mind and more substantial than matter: in short, a fundamental divine Existence variously creative of its own forms. It is indeed this Existence after which we Aurobindonians ...
... grow. Bertrand Russell About Russell—I have never disputed his abilities or his character,—I am concerned only with his opinions and there too only with those opinions which touch upon my own province—that of spiritual Truth. In all religions, the most narrow and stupid even, and in all non-religions also there are great minds, great men, fine characters. I know little about Russell, but I never... deal with religion and spiritual experience. All the same I shall see if there is anything that can be said in the matter. 1932 Russell, Eddington, Jeans I don't understand why Amal expects me to bow to the criticism of Bertrand Russell. 5 (1.) Russell's opinions are as much determined by his up bringing, temperament etc. as those of Jeans or Eddington. He was born in the heyday of the... clear and powerful intellect, Russell, but nothing more—not certainly an infallible authority whether in science or anything else. Jeans and Eddington have their own logical reasoning; I do not accept it any more than I accept Russell's. 6 Let us, however, leave the flinging of authorities, often the same authority for opposing conclusions, Russell quoted against Russell and Darwin against Darwin ...
... this experience is not a kind of magnificent illusion and thinks that their humanitarian activity should be dissociated from it and set up as our goal. Here is an attitude almost akin to Bertrand Russell's. Russell admits the mystic's ecstasy as a datum of ex-perience and says that what is of most value in human life is analogous to the lofty unselfish principles enunciated by the great religious teachers... a superficial view of the testimony of the world's finest figures, but you cannot escape logically granting that nothing short of such an hallucination can give rise exceedingly to "what is", in Russell's own words, "of most value in human life". If you admit certain so-called moral virtues to be of paramount importance to rational man, you cannot by-pass the mystical quest of the supra-rational which ...
... (iii) At this higher level, search for pleasure, egoistic or altruistic, gives way to a search for higher ideals like knowledge and character. Hedonism itself tends to be modified, and as in Bertrand Russell's "Conquest of Happiness", 45 adequate and significant space is given to the development of impersonal pursuits, and of cultivation of faculties. Hedonistic utilitarianism begins to be over- ...
... as there is a need to bridge the gulf between art and value. It is recognised that the development of science should be supplemented by enormous development of the value of human kindness. Bertrand Russell has pointed out that there are two ancient evils that science, unwisely used, may intensify: they are tyranny and war. His counsel to mankind is to avoid "cruelty, envy, greed, competitiveness... transformation of our educational system. We have also a favourable climate being created by some of the progressive experiments in the West, such as those promoted by Pestalozzi, Montessori, Bertrand Russel and others; the trend is towards child-centred education, and the basic idea is that the individual is not merely a social unit, but a soul, a being, who has to fulfil his own individual ...
... in Romain Rolland. SRI AUROBINDO: Bertrand Russell is an advocate of this kind of companionate marriage, with freedom to do whatever one likes. NIRODBARAN: That is why he has divorced his wife and married his secretary. SRI AUROBINDO: Has he? I didn't know that. When? NIRODBARAN: Some years ago. PURANI: It came as a great shock to Dilip. Russell had spoken to him of his happy ideal married ...
... integral education conducted in the light of Sri Aurobindo, as also pioneering experiments conducted in different parts of the world under the inspiration of Rousseau, Montessori, Pestalozzi, Bertrand Russell, Paulo Freire and others. It can be seen that the central knot of the problem that confronts child-centered education consists of the intertwining of three needs in a meaningful process of ...
... ground and blown to smithereens by the biggest which alone grandly survived. But in this case, Guru, you have not achieved nearly as complete a victory since; one has at least escaped annihilation: Bertrand Russell. And he still survives because, unlike many far-famed Yogis, he talks sense (and not childish rubbish) when adjudicating e.g. on the place of mind in life or of marriage in human relationship... type of rationalism, as, for example, when he wrote to me soon after I came to the Ashram:* _________________ * I invited his comment on Russell's remark in his 'Conquest of Happiness': Page 23 "Dilip, I have not forgotten Russell, but I have neglected him first, for want of time; second, because for the moment I have mislaid your letter; third, because of lack of understanding... else concern his ego? But that I suppose would include 999,999 men out of every million. "What are external things? Russell is a mathematician. Are mathematical formulae external things, even though they exist here only in the World-mind and the mind of Man? If not, is Russell, as mathematician, an introvert? Again, Yajnavalkya says that one loves the wife not for the sake of the wife, but for the ...
... for ages and the Divine and Superhuman are no strangers. Above all we must remember what Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter to a disciple apropos of an inveterately sceptical intellectuality like Bertrand Russell's as contrasted with the temperament which easily and eagerly believes or rests happy with lofty notions. Referring to himself and to his associate and co-worker in the Integral Yoga, the Mother... you that I have been an intellectual myself and no stranger to doubt — both the Mother and myself have had one side of the mind as positive and as insistent on practical results and more so than any Russell can be. We could never have been contended with the shining ideas and phrases which a Rolland or another takes for the gold coin of Truth. We know well what is the difference between a subjective ...
... comes to everybody and he had to pass through that phase or stage. SRI AUROBINDO: Well, it need not come to everybody, but when it does come to somebody he has to pass through it. People like Bertrand Russell can't bear this emptiness. He says that as soon as he tries to go within he begins to feel empty and wants to come back. It is foolish on his part to want to come back, for if he is able to feel ...
... connecting link between two succeeding terms, and the necessity of the link, are left as obscure as before. Life is tagged on to Matter and Mind is tagged on to Life in the name of the Lord God. Bertrand Russell made a move in the right direction with a happy suggestion which unhappily he had not the courage to follow up. Mind (and Life), he says, are certainly emergents out of Matter; that is because ...
... link between two succeeding terms, and the necessity of the link, are left as obscure as before. Life is tagged on to Matter and Mind is tagged on to Life in the name of the Lord God. Bertrand Russell made a move in the right Page 66 direction with a happy suggestion which unhappily he had not the courage to follow up. Mind (and Life), he says, are certainly emergents out of ...
... had the sceptic's hesitation to accept what he could not personally verify and the positivist tendency to lay stress on perception by the outward-looking intelligence, something of the temper of Bertrand Russell whose cautions "clear-headedness" and poised "realism" he admired. But whatever the differences, we had a restlessness of thought often pursuing us in even "the moments when the inner lamps are ...
... Eddington by telegram to the mathematician Littlewood, and Littlewood in a hasty note to Bertrand Russell: "Einstein's theory is completely confirmed. "' Einstein became a pacifist during the first world war and only his Swiss citizenship saved him from prison in Germany, while his friend Bertrand Russell was sent to jail in England for similar political ideals. During the period between the two ...
... is argued that there are no ascertainable faculties other than those of physical senses and those of anthropological rationality by the help of which any higher knowledge can be attained. Bertrand Russell, speaking on his own behalf as that of like-minded philosophers, stated towards the end of his History of Western Philosophy, "They confess frankly that the human intellect is unable to find ...
... T. Murray, Loeb Library. 3 Murray, G., Five stages of Greek Religion, Oxford, I930. 4 Harrison, G. E., Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Cambridge, 1922. 5 Vide., Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, Rutledge, London,1996, p. 43. 6 There appears to be a long period intervening between the Vedic Samhitas and the Upanishads. Numerous branches of the Vedic ...
... called intellectuals but thinkers and creators—except a certain class of them. An intellectual or intellectual thinker will then be one who is a thinker by his reason or mainly by his reason—e.g. Bertrand Russell, Bernard Shaw, Wells etc. Tagore thinks by vision, imagination, feeling or by intuition, not by the reason—at least that is true of his writings. C. R. Das himself would not be an intellectual; ...
... this were not so, there would be a universal consensus of philosophers instead of Aristotle at loggerheads with Plato, Kant going hammer-and-tongs at the Schoolmen as well as the Empiricists, Bertrand Russell spitting fire at Bergson. The spectacle, though extremely fascinating, is a trifle ludicrous too. Seeing that all these men possessing first-class minds cannot agree, one is inclined to ...
... justifying beliefs,” (Steve Fuller 9 ) which is putting it mildly. Religion or Spirituality “There is nothing accidental about the difference between a Church and its Founder,” wrote Bertrand Russell. “As soon as absolute truth is supposed to be contained in the sayings of a certain man, there is a body of experts to interpret his sayings, and these experts infallibly acquire power, since... unbelievable miracles in the New Testament, the tragi-comedy of Christianity’s history, and some quotations from Voltaire (who was, though not religious, an ardent believer in God), David Hume and Bertrand Russell. The physicist Paul Davies started his career as a best-selling science author with God and the New Physics (1983) and The Mind of God (1992). For the second book he was awarded the Templeton... of science, you have to suppose that human life and life in general on this planet will die out in due course: it is merely a flash in the pan; it is a stage in the decay of the solar system.” (Bertrand Russell 54 ) The Earth is going to die. When? In five billion years. (Mankind is supposed to have originated around two million years ago.) “The surface of the Sun at a temperature of several ...
... Subhash Chandra Bose; (seated ) Dilip Kumar Roy and C. C. Desai Page 22 at an international conference at Lugano, Switzerland, attended by world celebrities like Bertrand Russell, Remain Rolland, Hermann Hesse, Georges Duhamel and others. Met President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. Toured Vienna, Prague, Buda- pest, etc. to speak on Indian music and culture, including Sanskrit ...
... history, considering how and why Hellas came to be born from that great siege and all that followed it and how the amazing Greek civilization arose. The wonder that was Greece has been expressed by Bertrand Russell in these words: "in all history, nothing is so surprising or so difficult to account for as the sudden rise of the civilization in Greece. Much of what makes civilization had already existed for... and order to the hierarchy of heaven. II The only other civilization of ancient times, which was equally amazing and difficult to account for, was the Vedic ______ 1 Bertand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, pp 25 Page 13 c ivilization, which was more ancient than the Greek and had, in the field of mysticism, much greater and more lasting consequences. And ...
... several characteristics he has in common with Edward Wilson. Another marked influence on him was scientism, more specifically the mentality of the nineteenth century reconditioned by the mind of Bertrand Russell, who wrote: “My view of religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. … Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained... (Marek Kohn 38 ) Hard as he tried, Dawkins was not able to discard completely the humanistic tradition at the roots of the British academic tradition in which he was educated. Besides, even Bertrand Russell became a public paragon of humanism (and ended with ideas to found a religion). “We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators,” writes Dawkins in The Devil’s... × Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker , p. xiv. × Russell on Religion , pp. 169, 107. × William Dembski (ed.): Uncommon Dissent , p. 101. ...
... worldly books, or if ever again I read such, I have denied Thee.’ This, he adds, ' was no sleep or idle dream’.”¹ Here is obviously an extreme case ¹ History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell, Page 199 of ascetic self-denial, but it has, all the same, an unmistakable lesson for those who engross themselves in unremitting mental activities either in the deluded hope ...
... devised by Copernicus himself nor by one of his contemporaries. It is a weapon in the arsenal of Scientism forged during the decline of Western religion and the ascendancy of positivist science. Bertrand Russell, formerly the mouthpiece of anti-religious rationalism, defined the Principle as follows: “The earth is one of the smaller planets of a not particularly important star, a very minor portion of... on this little planet are really the centre of the universe is one which I don’t think would occur to anybody except us.” 14 Here Russell was speaking about a universe with a very large number of galaxies of which Copernicus could not have had an idea – and Russell himself would probably wonder at the cosmological marvels and riddles that have been discovered since he made his voice heard. The... J. Bernard Cohen: The Birth of a New Physics , pp. 25 and 52. × Russell on Religion , p. 93. × At the time Gould wrote these words, it was not yet known that the earth had ...
... rare union of the scientific and the spiritual, each intensifying and completing the other, that finds expression in a letter he wrote apropos of an inveterately sceptical intellectuality like Bertrand Russel's as contrasted with the temperament which easily and eagerly believes or rests happy with lofty speculations. The letter begins: "I must remind you that I have been an intellectual... Page 8 no stranger to doubts, - both the Mother and myself have had one side of the mind as positive and as insistent on practical results and more so than any Russell can be. We could never have been contented with the shining ideas and phrases which a Rolland or another takes for gold coin of Truth. We know well what is the difference between a subjective ...
... the surface of things is knowable, the rest either does not or cannot exist or Page 293 must be left in the shadow of an inevitable agnosticism. There are no depths [or they] are, as Bertrand Russell would have us believe, an uninhabited emptiness; there is no inner sky except the sky of thought or an abstract void crossed by the wandering wings of the Idea; if there is a sky behind the sky ...
... mathematics and music in Cambridge. He spoke several Indian languages besides English, French and German. Among his acquaintances were Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Georges Duhamel and Subhas Chandra Bose. He would become the author of not less than seventy-five books in Bengali and twenty-six in English. It was Ronald Nixon, a former British war pilot... put himself under Sri Aurobindo’s ‘aegis’. ‘I decided to return home, but not before an operation I had undergone so that my hernia might not stand in the way of my being accepted. Also I saw [Bertrand] Russell in his Cornwall home, gave a few lectures here and there and booked a passage home in November, 1927.’ After a short stay in Bengal, he arrived for the second time in Pondicherry in August 1928 ...
... us of the Copernican Principle, which reduces the status of the Earth to nothing but one planet among others and the status of the human beings to nothing but one kind of animals among others. Bertrand Russell, at one time the mouthpiece of scientific rationalism, wrote already many years ago: “If you accept the ordinary laws of science, you have to suppose that human life in general will die out in... × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle , p. 221. × In Russell on Religion , pp. 9 and 38. × Martin Rees: Our Final Century , p. 8. ...
... meaning. It prescribes the cultivation of qualities or states of mind and experience that would result from the philosophical denial of meaning. This is very well illustrated in the Essay written by Bertrand Russell, "A Freeman's Worship" where he describes briefly his philosophy of meaninglessness and application of that philosophy in the conduct of life. For the sake of brevity, we may only quote the... ly recognised at present that the development of science, which is today holding the central stage of the field of knowledge, should be supplemented by enormous development of human goodness. Bertrand Russell, in his study of science and its impact on society has pointed out that there are two ancient evils that science, unwisely used, may intensify: they are tyranny and war. He has, therefore, declared ...
... Socratic arguments. For example, Bertrand Russell, in his hook The History of Western Philosophy, criticizes this theory of knowledge as recollection, by pointing out that even though the knowledge of logic and mathematics could perhaps be demonstrated as knowledge by recollection, the Socratic argument is wholly inapplicable to empirical knowledge. Russell is an empiricist and considers that... reality, he does not accept as knowledge. There is, according to Russell, no such thing as Absolute Equality, or Absolute Truth, Beauty or Goodness. He maintains that these so-called Absolutes are only fictions of the mind for the sake of convenience of speech and communication but not corresponding to any truths of reality. Unfortunately, Russell gives no arguments to prove his contentions. He simply appeals... appeals to sense-experience. But this appeal cannot be regarded as an argument. One can feel legitimately that Russell refuses to go beyond the world of senses and finite things and dismisses arbitrarily the rationalistic doctrine of Socrates which probes deeper into the psychology of rational thought in which one does find the presence of Universal Ideas such as those of Truth, Beauty and Goodness, ...
... triumph of the spirit over its mental and vital and physical difficulties, in the Path and the Guru, in the existence of things other than are written in the philosophy of Haeckel or Huxley or Bertrand Russell, because if these things are not true, there is no meaning in the Yoga. Page 100 If his faith depends on the perfection of the sadhaks, obviously it must be a rather shaky thing ...
... To discover and realise the psychic or the soul must be his first business in life, as Socrates always insisted, and as every religion or spiritual discipline invariably teaches. Science, as Bertrand Russell admits, is incapable of furthering man's genuine progress, simply because it cannot remove his pitiful ignorance of himself and enlighten him on the true ends of life. "I mean by wisdom ! right ...
... battle waged for years in the field of mathematics. Logical difficulties were pointed out in the theory of transfinite numbers, various paradoxes were proposed, notably by Burali Forti in Italy, Bertrand Russell in England, Koenig in Germany and Richard in France. The subject of transfinite numbers is so enthralling that one is tempted to treat it in some detail. But space forbidding, we content ourselves... a bare mention of the fact that faced with the dilemma of the Theory of Aggregates, mathematicians divided themselves into two opposite camps, the "formalists" represented among others by Hilbert, Russell and Zermelo, and the "intuitionists" by Kronecker, Poincaré, Brower and Weyl. A student of mathematics draws two valuable morals from these episodes concerning the mathematicians' encounter ...
... educational systems. Page 648 * We have also a favourable climate being created by some of the progressive experiments in the West, such as those promoted by Pestalozzi, Montessori, Bertrand Russell and others; the trend is towards child-centered education, and the basic idea is that the individual is not merely a social unit, but a soul, a being, who has to fulfil his own individual truth... Essay on Philosophy of Life in the Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru Nehru (iii) Materialistic terrestrial aim of life A Free Man's Worship by Bertrand Russell (iv) Scientific terrestrial aim of life The World as I See It by Einstein (v) Supra terrestrial aim of life Bible (vi) Supra-cosmic aim of life Dhammapada and Vi... hand and science and technology on the other hand is needed. *There is a need to see the things in totality. Education must try to raise the consciousness of human persons. To achieve this, Bertrand Russell proposed combination of thinking, willing and feeling. This suggestion is relevant even today. *Everybody has a core within. Despite abundance of knowledge, we are unable to Practise it due ...
... common belief among the intellectuals of the eighteenth century.) One could illustrate abundantly how the triad of the levels of being continued to shape the thinking even of a rationalist like Bertrand Russell (instinct, mind, spirit) or an out-and-out materialist like Jacques Monod (matter, emotions, thought). Arthur Lovejoy The Great Chain of Being (1936), the classic essay by the historian ...
... what his reason cannot label or docket? I recall a remark Tagore made years ago. He and Bertrand Russell had once gone out for a stroll in Cambridge. As they passed by King's College Chapel Page 124 they heard a choral hymn being sung by the boys: lovely music! Tagore suggested to Russell that they step inside the Chapel. "Nothing doing," replied the rationalist mathematician ...
... has led scientists into a new region, verging on the metaphysical. They draw different and often contradictory conclusions. Some see in it a new unity, the antithesis of chance. Others, like Bertrand Russell say: "Academic philosophers ever since the time of Parmenides have believed the world is unity. The most fundamental of my beliefs is that this is rubbish." Or again, "Man is the product of causes ...
... was desparately ill. When I look back in retrospect, I see that I have come to love the British primarily because of three men: Bertrand Russell, Krishnaprem (alias Ronald Nixon) and Chadwick. Of these Chadwick was distinctive in a peculiar way. For while Russell remained British and Krishnaprem became out and out a Hindu, Page 305 only Chadwick combined in him the rich, aristocratic... all! wordy eloquence about silence somewhat suspect. He sent me his kind reply written in his own hand (that is not a typed letter) in which he signed himself A.E (his pen-name) aid not George Russell. The letter was from Dublin and was dated January 6, 1932: "Dear Dilip Roy, "Your letter has come at a time when I am too troubled in mind to write, as I would like, about the poems you... it must be for you to be fair to us, Englishmen, the more because we have been far from fair to you. But believe me, the real Englishman abhors nothing so much as an inroad into personal liberty. Russell is an instance in point. I consider him great — in spite of his obvious limitations — because he typifies in him two great traits of the English character at its best: Page 304 love ...
... But with the acceptance of these pointers its whole stance vis-a-vis the varieties of religious experience and the revelations of mystical and spiritual realisation must undergo a change. Bertrand Russell's statement that the declarations of mystics can be taken merely as expressive of psychological phenomena and not of aspects of ontological truth can no longer have the full support of scientific... The four European thinkers of our time who have built up philosophical systems containing a more or less explicit recognition of this monism have not come authentically near such a synthesis. Bertrand Russell with his view that ultimate reality is neither mental nor material but neutral in respect of these alternatives reckons not at all with a life or mind existing and functioning beyond its material ...
... nature; when you consider that all of human life is only a transitory phase of the universe, I think it is difficult to suppose that [the] omnipotence [of God] could not possibly have done better.” (Bertrand Russell) “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.” (Richard Dawkins) ...
... perception of the strangeness and the wonder of the world and of the dimensions, which are unimaginable. The spirit of inquiry that we find in writings such as those of Shankara, Descartes and Bertrand Russell will give to the students the psychological insights into heights that one needs to scale if one wants to look what lies behind and beyond the horizons which seem to be unending. The subject ...
... Increasing stress on socialism, - what is called " Socialist' Pattern " in the organisation of collective life - throughout the world. These are external means making for unity of mankind. Bertrand Russell in his broadcasts from London-" Living in an atomic age " proposes that by a rational utilisation of the atom-energy it is possible to solve the problems of humanity. He seems to think that the ...
... personal experience that many people are tired today of this sterile scepticism—as I was myself before Page 96 my plunge for Yoga. Even one of the greatest of modern sceptics, Bertrand Russell, a thinker who once preached the gospel of "the will to doubt" says today in 1950: "But if philosophy is to serve a positive purpose, it must not teach mere scepticism, for, while the dogmatist ...
... transformation of our educational system. We have also a favourable climate being created by some of the progressive experiments in the West, such as those promoted by Pestalozzi, Montessori, Bertrand Russell and others; the trend is towards child-centred education, and the basic idea is that the individual is not merely a social unit, but a soul, a being, who has to fulfil his own individual truth... just as there is a need to bridge the gulf between art and value. It is recognised that the development of science should be supplemented by enormous development of the value of human kindness. Bertrand Russell has pointed out that there are two ancient evils that science, unwisely used, may intensify: they are tyranny and war. His counsel to mankind is to avoid "cruelty, envy, greed, competitiveness ...
... required for living together through cooperation and through the processes of mutuality and interdependence. Thanks to the pioneering educational philosophers like Rousseau, Montessori, Pestalozzi, Bertrand Russell, Paulo Freire, and Piaget, it is Page 303 now being increasingly recognised that education must be a bringing out of the child's own intellectual and moral capacities to their highest ...
... , we have seen on several occasions how the gradations of the Chain of Being influenced instinctively the thought of even some of the most hardened materialistic thinkers and scientists, e.g. Bertrand Russell and Jacques Monod. The reason is that reality exceeds the artificial separations constructed by the mind, not vice versa, and that the workings of reality, or nature, cannot be overlooked permanently ...
... in November 1928. His intellectual admiration for Bertrand Russell infected him With philosophic doubt, while his adhesion to Sri Aurobindo opened up vistas 01 enchanting spiritual progress. The inner conflict was not easily solved, and once Krishnaprern had to give this friendly reprimand: Page 574 Why do you keep harping on Russell?... why do you keep hoping that your Gurudev or someone... someone else will answer his sceptical arguments? If you accept Russell's premisses you will be forced into his conclusions, but then why accept his premisses? He is no muddle-headed thinker whose conclusions are at fault with his premisses.... If you set foot on an escalator, you will be automatically carried to the top of it; so why set foot on it at all when you see it going in the wrong direction ...
... permanency of the higher and higher states of Yoga is called realisation. 7 Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, 1971, Pondicherry, Vol.20, pp.63 8 Epictetus 1.1.23 9 Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, paperback edition, 1996, p.270 10 William James: Varieties of Religious Experience, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, paperback edition, 2004, p.49 ...
... Humorous effect can be produced in another way, by mixing up the literal and the emotive meanings of one and the same word. An illustrative joke based upon this confusion was made by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, when he sought to "conjugate" the "irregular verb" 'to be' as: I am firm; you are obstinate; he is pig-headed. This is a simple illustration of the point we have in view. The three ...
... mathematics and music in Cambridge. Besides several Indian languages he spoke English, French and German. Among his acquaintances were Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Georges Duhamel and Subhas C. Bose. He would become the author of no less than seventy-five books in Bengali and twenty-six in English. His attention had been drawn to Sri Aurobindo by Ronald ...
... unaware. I use this rather clumsy metaphor but perhaps you see what I am trying to find words for - yet the desirable paradisal state seems to exceed hope - or there I go again with the ghost of Bertrand Russell or someone of that kind muttering 'wishful thinking'. Or maybe it is for us to create that which we desire. Thereby making a reality of a wish? Who knows. To 'Build a heaven in hell's despite' ...
... triumph of the spirit over its mental and vital and physical difficulties, in the Path and the Guru, in the existence of things other than are written in the philosophy of Haeckel or Huxley or Bertrand Russell, because if these things are not true, there is no meaning in the Yoga. As for particular facts and asseverations about Bejoy Goswami or anybody else, there is room for dis- crimination, for... on you the real importance of a specific contribution from him for purposes of this volume. You are possibly aware that for the volume on Contemporary British Philosophy, men like Bossanquet, Bertrand Russell Haldane and McTaggart, among others, made their contributions. The volume on Contemporary Indian Philosophy will not be worth the name without a statement from Sri Aurobindo. I feel that he will... think on these lines (the physical mind alas!), I justify such doubts and think it legitimate to have some translation of these in the world of hard reality. But when I find Tagore and Rolland and Russell express the same kind of doubts I feel I love you very much and all that you stand for, however doubtful validity your claim of the Supramental Reality might have seemed to me, before. Yes, it is ...
... employing "the different possible impersonal points of view..., those for which the observer can be regarded as a mechanical automaton and can be replaced by scientific measuring appliances." Bertrand Russell explains on page 219 of The ABC of Relativity: "People have been misled by the way in which writers on relativity speak of 'the observer'. It is natural to suppose that the observer is a human ...
... venture, which was purely secular; much good was done, especially in music, but it all Page 209 ends in decline. The school, founded in the great days of 'free' schools and Bertrand and Dora Russell has now been closed because of scandals and drugs getting into the school and so on. The need is such that I believe it will come about. Please God it may. It is a great mistake to suppose ...
... concretely and directly. Hence an organism in its wholeness is pre-eminently non-mechanistic in the literal sense. This is not tantamount to saying there are no mechanistic elements in it. Bertrand Russell, in a chapter of his Human Page 236 knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, seems to think that if a frog's heart can be kept beating, as it can under special conditions, after being ...
... anonymous "authoritative source". Among the Great consists of accounts of Dilip's meetings and excerpts from his correspondence with five eminent contemporaries — Romain Rolland, Mahatma Gandhi, Bertrand Russell, Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. Dilip began working on his manuscript sometime during the late 1920s. Around September 1928, he sent portions of it, including a life sketch written by ...
... called intellectuals but thinkers and creators — except a certain class of them. Intellectual or intellectual thinker will then be one who is a thinker by his reason or mainly by his reason — e.g., Bertrand Russell, Bernard Shaw, Wells etc. Tagore thinks by vision, imagination, feeling and intuition, not by the reason — at least that is true of his writings. C. R. Das himself would not be an intellectual ...
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