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The Great Philosophers: Russell (Paperback)
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The Great Philosophers: Russell (Paperback)
Series: GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
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'The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are
always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of
doubts' Bertrand Russell 'Science is what you know. Philosophy is
what you don't know' Bertrand Russell discovered mathematics at the
age of eleven. It was, he recalled, a transporting experience: 'as
dazzling as first love'. From that moment on, he would pursue his
passion with undying devotion and fervour. Mathematics might
succeed, he felt, where philosophy had failed, reducing thought to
its purest form, and freeing knowledge from doubt and
contradiction. And for a time, so it seemed. Russell's mathematical
investigations effortlessly resolved at a stroke some of
philosophy's most intractable problems. Yet if mathematics could be
a liberating mistress, she was also an unreliable one... Opening up
the work of one of our age's undisputed giants, Ray Monk's
exhilaratingly clear, readable guide tells a compelling human tale
too: a moving story of love and loss, of ecstatic triumph and deep
disillusion.
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