Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself – questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scrupulous logic, and lofty wisdom for which his other work as philosopher, writer, and teacher has been famous. These qualities make the essays included in this book perhaps the most graceful and moving presentation of the freethinker's position since the days of Hume and Voltaire.
„I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue,” Russell declares in his Preface, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle man's mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as… (tovább)
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Bertrand Russell: Why I Am Not a Christian And other essays on religion and related subjects
Az esszék többsége jó, bár a könyv összességében nem üti meg a „Marriage and Morals” könyvét, és a végén az az írás, ami Russell esetét mutatja be a New York állami bírósággal, kicsit fárasztó volt.
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Bertrand Russell: Why I Am Not a Christian And other essays on religion and related subjects
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