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What I Believe

Bertrand Russell

Along with Why I Am Not a Christian, this essay must rank as the most articulate example of Russell's famed atheism. It is also one of the most notorious. Used as evidence in a 1940 court case in which Russell was declared unfit to teach college-level philosophy, What I Believe was to become one of his most defining works. The ideas contained within were and are controversial, contentious and - to the religious - downright blasphemous. A remarkable work, it remains the best concise introduction to Russell's thought.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: Feb 2nd, 2004
  • Pages: 70
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0002
  • Dimensions: 7.81in - 5.06in - 0.15in - 0.17lb
  • EAN: 9780415325097
  • Categories: GeneralGeneral

Praise for this book

'Bertrand Russell wrote the best English prose of any twentieth-century philosopher.' - Anthony Howard, The Times

'Bertrand Russell attributed religion to a primitive terror of the unknown and the desire for a kindly older brother to stand alongside us.' - The Age