Human Society in Ethics and Politics
by Bertrand Russell
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First published in 1954, Human Society in Ethics and Politics is Bertrand Russell's last full account of his ethical and political positions relating to both politics and religion. Ethics, he argues, are necessary to man because of the conflict between intelligence and impulse - if one were without the other, there would be no place for ethics. Man's impulses and desires are equally social and solitary. Politics and ethics are the means by which we as a society and as individuals become show more socially purposeful and moral codes inculcate our rules of action. show lessTags
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Russell es un gran tipo. Sus razonamientos contra Kant, el parlamentario inglés y otros son realmente mordaces. Es una auténtica luminaria. En esta obra intenta esbozar una ética universal, o al menos describir sus principales características. La política debe basarse en la ética y por ello deja por escrito el autor sus dudas acerca del destino de la humanidad (le entiendo) si los países con poder siguen tolerando y fomentando el odio entre los pueblos. Es un gran libro de una gran mente.
Het eerste deel is nogal theoretisch en vraagt om aandachtig te worden gelezen.
Het tweede deel is wat verouderd, maar daarom niet minder interessant of net daarom. Het werd geschreven in het begin van de koude oorlog en de inzichten en voorspellingen van toen met vandaag vergelijken laten zien hoe juist Russell de toekomst inschatte.
Zo merkte Russell op dat de tegenstelling tussen het Westen en het Oostblok geen ideologische tegenstelling was. Zonder het communisme zou dit er evengoed zijn omdat het om een machtstegenstelling gaat.
Het tweede deel is wat verouderd, maar daarom niet minder interessant of net daarom. Het werd geschreven in het begin van de koude oorlog en de inzichten en voorspellingen van toen met vandaag vergelijken laten zien hoe juist Russell de toekomst inschatte.
Zo merkte Russell op dat de tegenstelling tussen het Westen en het Oostblok geen ideologische tegenstelling was. Zonder het communisme zou dit er evengoed zijn omdat het om een machtstegenstelling gaat.
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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic. He was best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Together with G.E. Moore, Russell is generally recognized as one of the main founders of modern analytic philosophy. Together with Kurt Gödel, he is regularly show more credited with being one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century. Over the course of a long career, Russell also made contributions to a broad range of subjects, including the history of ideas, ethics, political and educational theory, and religious studies. General readers have benefited from his many popular writings on a wide variety of topics. After a life marked by controversy--including dismissals from both Trinity College, Cambridge, and City College, New York--Russell was awarded the Order of Merit in 1949 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Noted also for his many spirited anti-nuclear protests and for his campaign against western involvement in the Vietnam War, Russell remained a prominent public figure until his death at the age of 97. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Human Society in Ethics and Politics
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- Human Society in Ethics and Politics
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- 1954
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- English
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