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內容簡介

Nothing is sacred. Sex, morality, politics, society - all are fair game for Bertrand Russell's acerbic wit and keen eye. With What I Believe first published in 1925, Russell took on organized religion. 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. More than three-quarters of a century after it was written, the arguments within this essay continue to challenge one's faith and assumptions. A remarkable work, it remains the best concise introduction to Russell's thought.

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'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

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作者簡介

Bertrand Russell, geboren 1872, schrieb sein erstes Buch über die deutsche Sozialdemokratie (1896) und viele weitere gesellschaftskritische und philosophische Studien. 1950 wurde seine "Philosophie des Abendlandes" im Europa Verlag auf deutsch veröffentlicht. Im selben Jahr erhielt Russell den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Er starb 1970 in Wales.