The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to ...

Bertrand Russell stands at the end of a philosophic line of succession extending from John Locke through David Hume and John Stuart Mill. As such, he is heir to perhaps the most civilized and ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. L’idea di un governo mondiale fu approfondita da Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) soprattutto negli anni Cinquanta, in concomitanza con ...

Education should tear away the enshrouding myths of collective passions and stimulate in their place a just and rational skepticism: that was the theme of Bertrand Russell's lecture before the ...

An extract from Bertrand Russell's essay in Praise of Idleness. In praise of idleness - Bertrand Russell Can't switch off from work? Envy those 'lazy' strikers? In this 1932 essay, Bertrand Russell, ...

Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, essayist and social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. Over the course of a long career, Russell also ...

Bertrand Russell received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he championed humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought. He was one of ...