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Bertrand Russell “To be happy, one must first not be unhappy” Tim Delaney finds joy in Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness. In 1930, Bertrand Russell published The Conquest of Happiness, a book that predates the contemporary fascination with self-help publications by decades.It was described by Russell in the Preface as “not addressed to highbrows, or to those who regard a.Readers of this blog know that Bertrand Russell is one of my intellectual heroes. I believe that Russell was the greatest philosopher in the twentieth century and quite possibly the greatest philosopher of the entire Western intellectual tradition. (You can find a brief introduction to some of his many contributions to philosophy here .).This is an online collection of over one hundred books and articles by Bertrand Russell. For a complete list of Russell’s books and articles see our online Russell bibliography.We also maintain a chronology of Russell’s life and an introduction. to his analytic philosophy. I. EARLY ESSAYS BY RUSSELL.
To begin with, Russell is quite aware that philosophy for laymen is a very different thing than philosophy for specialists. The latter deal with abstruse matters in academic ivory towers which the average person on the street, even if they are tolerably intelligent and educated, is right to dismiss as nonsense.The subject matter of his essays may be very difficult but his manner of expression is so lucid and simple that even a layman can understand him without any special difficulty. It is a rare privilege which only few prose masters enjoy. The precision and clarity which Russell’s prose style possesses are very rare in the bulk of English prose.
Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.406, Psychology Press Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community.
