A free man's worship, and other essays
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A free man's worship, and other essays
Unwin Paperbacks, 1976
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First published in 1917 under the title: Mysticism and logic, and other essays
Includes index
Contents of Works
- A free man's worship
- Mysticism and logic
- The place of science in a liberal education
- The study of mathematics
- Mathematics and the metaphysicians
- On scientific method in philosophy
- The ultimate constituents of matter
- The relation of sense-data to physics
- On the notion of cause
- Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description
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Description
This collection of essays is concerned with different ways of knowing; the particular problems of philosophy; and the ultimate nature of matter. They reveal Russell's lifelong preoccupation: the disentanglement with ever-increasing precision of what is subjective or intellectually cloudy from what is objective or capable of logical demonstration. In them we can see the Russell method in operation: intellectual analysis dissecting a problem to its bare bones. Also included is Bertrand Russel's celebrated essay "A Free Man's Worship". In it he maintains that a new and deeper faith can be constructed, not faith in a theological sense but faith in the power of reason; his faith in man's capacity to create his own world through his own effort.
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