A (very) Brief History of Bertrand Russell
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2020
- In this episode, we cover the history of the primarily 20th century British mathematician, logician, philosopher, and political activist, most notable for co-authoring the logic text Principia Mathematica with Alfred North Whitehead. As per usual, I don't go too heavy into the mathematics, largely covering his history.
Notes:
- Russell met his first wife the summer of 1889, not 1899
- When I discuss his travels to China, I say "In September 1920, Russell went to Beijing...". He left for Beijing then, and ended up there in October 1920.
Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1N...
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That final quote is great and profound, and deserves to be read not in a casual cadence at the greatest speed possible, but with real thought, proper emphasis and appropriate measure.
Good stuff. You could also have mentioned that Russell won the Nobel Prize, not for maths or philosophy but Literature.
Amazing
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There is no Nobel Prize in philosophy, to award him they gave him Literature.
@@dragonmartijn Or in maths, come to that.
I had read most of his History of Western Philosophy many years ago as well as several books on atheism. What a mental giant. Hard to imagine how he gained such a fabulous mind.
A man in whom wisdom and folly were carefully balanced.
This is the most worthy video I’ve seen on RUclips in a while. Many thanks. 🙏
I was looking for a short summary of the life and work of Bertrand Russell- this was exactly it. Thank you so much!
Thanks for putting this together. I'm a big fan of Russell and you did a great overview of his life.
What exactly are you a fan of?
@@words911 I’m a fan of lots of things, but here’s a few. His activism, his viewpoint on logic/thought/ethics and his dedication to taking complex issues and writing about them in a clear way so that everyday people could understand and engage with the ideas. He was a great writer and fun to read.
@@BecomeUseful did you know he delved into indoctrinating kids under 10 in school? Look up how he tried to brainwash children into thinking snow was black. The children were told to never tell their parents. His methods of suggestion and indoctrination are prevalent today. The media, education, etc. An atheist chaos agent tbh
His book History Of Western Philosophy is very interesting being an excellent summary of a large period of Western history and he was a superb writer. It would a good desert island book. Available now as an ebook for nothing.
.. as a German Biologist - in our German High School in the 1960´s we discussed Russell. He appeared eternal and immortal - no hurry to get to know him. In a way - he still his present. Our world today is disintegrating fast in all areas. We may be the last Generation- self extinction.
Really good quality. You definitely deserve more attention, great work!
Wait.... Holy shit... I only just realized he doesn't have tens of, if not hundreds of thousands of views.
What a nice channel, I got served the Bertrand Russell video randomly, and I’m looking forward to exploring many of the others.
You've done a very good job with assembling your information on such an incredibly complicated and forward thinking individual.
This video tells us about everything that can be told about Bertrand Russell
in 22 minutes. You have covered everything thing from his life, his ideas, contributions and precise introduction to his major works in such a short video.
Excellent!
Not quite; he omitted Nobel Prize in literature.
@@milkoansah-johnson8768 .....n you've done the rest. Great!
Great. Now it is complete
I swear this is the first I am hearing of Mr Russell but I am glad I came across your Video. Great stuff.
Excellent piece, enjoyed it immensely. Good microphone technique too!
A clear analytical mind despite personal tumult.
I admire that man so much. May he never be forgotten. Why you don’t mention his Nobel prize is a flaw .
Great video, You gave a lot of information to think about and investigate
I didnt knew anything about Russell before but You helped me to learn and get useful info about him on fun way
Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video.
I was intrigued by him in so many ways as an adolescent. His works made me both skeptical yet open minded.
Me too. I named my first vehicle after him. 🤣
@@jeanettewaverly2590 Bertrand, Russell, or Bertrand Russell?
@@jtgd Bertrand Russell!
Great job! I really enjoyed this video.
Thank you for posting this. :)
Very well presented. Most enjoyable.
I remember the student apartments at Essex University being named after Russell and others.
Russell was Not an atheist, He was an Agnostic and he wrote many papers explaining this. In a 1953 essay on agnostics he wrote:
"it is impossible, or at least impossible at the present time, to know the truth in matters such as God and the future life with which Christianity and other religions are concerned."
Knowing this is crucial to understanding the man. Please edit this nice video so this fact will be understood.
In 1958, Russell explicitly called himself an atheist. Please look up "Russel's Teapot" on wiki.
indeed you can be an agnostic and an atheist, agnosticism is a statement regarding the truth of religion, and atheism is a statement on ones belief in religion
i.e. he says one cannot know if god exists, and also that he does not believe in god, both not being mutually exclusive
A/gnosticism deals with knowledge, a/theism deals with belief, russell was an atheist plz read a book before typing
“You can’t prove Jesus didn’t exist” alert
Fascinating and I'm going to listen to your ARTICULATE account again. 🕊
Exactly what I was looking for!
A good summary and well presented. I read the two volume biography of Russell by Ray Monk which I highly recommend.
I must read that book.
Thank you 🙏 I found listening to this really inspiring.
amazing summary of a great mind
One of the greatest thinkers of all times.
When he started talking about mathematics my brain went from 🤯🤯🤯 to ⚰️ real quick! 😵
Hahahaha 🤣
One of the great minds of our times.
helpful for my logic module!
Thank you so much!
Very educative. Thanks.
educative? really?
@@martitinkovich4489 Thanks Marti. I really love the professor. Wish we have more like him in all countries of the world. Wish you all the best.
Fun Fact: *The first actor who played Davros-a villain from famous sci fic show Doctor Who, based his performance as Davros on Bertrand Russell*
Interesting. I can't think which of Russell's characteristics he made use of.
Underrated
Very interesting. Thanks.
excellent video
Very interesting. Russell a "character" [no harm in that]: I don't recall the episode mentioning his Nobel Prize-surely worth at least a passing comment.
Brilliant video. Please also make video on G H Hardy
Brilliant and extraordinary man Bertrand Russell thought outside the box
What a life and contribution to humanity.
Such a long life . 98 years
English Aristocracy.
I ADORE READING
"Why I am not a Christian" changed my life in 1966
I was surprised and pleased to discover that such opposition to Christianity was permitted.
Nowadays, of course, the practice is very common and very popular.
As a result I bought many of Russell's books, including the autobiography.
Sorry.. but why was he not a Christian?
It was a watershed for me too. His writings guided my through the shark-infested waters of adolescence.
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Good. I'm glad you've found a path through the valley of death.
But don't walk through the valley of death.
Run !
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If you read his book or listen to it being read, you'll find the answer.
It's free, online !
@@dukadarodear2176 he writes in that book why he wasn't a Christian.
Excellent
Brilliant brief biography .
honestly I find it quite surprising that no one ever mentions that his grandfather who raised him, Lord Russel, was a diplomat and prime minister. he even met Napoleon!
Yes
Thank you
I hope that the rest of the video is good because when I got to Peano I could no longer stand the piano music.
lol how did it end up
Like a neighbour banging away on the keys while you're trying to read a book.
Please cover Paul Érdos
Extremely interesting. But the background music is distracting.
Very interesting.
Very succinct and factual would have helped to have subtitles
Bertrandt Russel ... what a great spirit & soul !
A great deal of this was lifted from Wikipedia, which in turn was lifted from other sources.
What if the information was good anyways?
Hiedgaar, Quine, P F Strawson, GE Moore, Wittingstine, Hussrel please cover.
headgear? westinghouse? whattt?
Great stuff, but no matter what was said about Russell here it is not enough. Personally, I believe that his work on reconnecting Math with its Formal logic roots is some of the greatest accomplishments in human history, and there is so much to be done in this field even beyond Russell's and Kurt godel's work !
Youre an idiot. Read A. Garciadiego, Bertrand Russell and the Origins....
Similar to Wikipedia, married 4 times. Frank also had marital issues but died much younger.
Beautiful work
Very interesting to learn about this important man’s private life.
Thankyou
Freedom of expression! Thankful for you Lord Bertrand William Russell, practical purposes.
What's the name of the music please at the very begining ?
The beautiful music is from Iberia by Isaac Albéniz.
Russell was a wonderful writer.
His style was too Latinate.
From the moment I discovered Bertrand Russell he became my " godfather " in matters of philosophy ( pun intended, I also am an atheist). I've enjoyed reading a good number of his books, and continue to enjoy them. Interesting to notice there is no mention of his getting the most prestigious prize in the world. For me the fundamental source of inspiration is his autobiography, highly recommended.
How to have a full life, what a guy.
Grand MERCI 👌 de Québec 🌎
What's the piano piece behind the narration?
The beautiful music is from Iberia by Isaac Albéniz.
My father name is Aston Russell and my name is Marcus Russell bless up family 😂❤
5:10 This same moment is in the John von Neumann video.
I love Russell
Great photographs but surprisingly naive summary from what I've seen. Russell was not an atheist but rather a self described agnostic for starters - see Routledge compilation. Mathematician and logician he certainly was but a philosopher in the sense commonly used? As a scientist I see a quite different man to that described in this summary. If I was to pigeon hole Russell in 100 words or less I would call him a mathematician/logician whose late Victorian/Edwardian certainties were smashed by World War 1. Whence he sought a different framework to the universe using the tools he had acquired in his first 44 years. Central to this exploration was his science based view of the world where acceptance of mathematical uncertainty is central in contrast to the certainty philosophers seem to ascribe generally to their anthropocentric mental models. The result was the polymath on display in the diversity of his subsequent output.
He’s legit well known as a philosopher. Nothing necessarily contradictory with being both a philosopher and mathematician. Hell mathematicians have been both. Scientism isn’t the big brain high horse you think it is.
Bertrand Russell was not a "full-blown atheist". He had the same disdain for what we think of as atheist today, that Albert Einstein had and that I happen to also have.
He, like Einstein and myself, recognized that a positive belief in the non-existence of things outside nature is irrational and impossible to confirm. It ends up being belief, not knowledge. Which frankly makes it a kind of religion for the hard atheists.
He, like Einstein and myself again, preferred the term agnostic.
Am I the only one that thinks Alfred North Whitehead ( 3:47 ) looks like Vladimir Putin? Not to undermine the value of this video, it was excellent and informative. It's just, uncanny.
12:54 "[...] first meeting her in the summer of 1899, when he was just 17. [...] marrying on December 13 1894".
So he married at the age of 12, five years before he first met her . . .
Yes l agree there is no free will Everything is plan Brilliant man with wisdom and knowledge
Sir Francis Galton
Are we sure we aren't just reviewing The Brothers Karamazov here?
is this the guy from the strain?
Presumably, you thought the talk would be more interesting if it was accompanied by music.
As a piano player myself, I found myself listening to the music, trying to figure out the structure.
Is it perhaps a sonata by one of the Russian composers ?
Read the History of Western Philosophy. Never understood Wittgenstein's omission. My only suspicion is that the book is based on his Lecturing notes, and he would never have lectured upon his protégé.
He was born exactly 90 years to the day before me.
There been huge fan of B.Russell thinking, philosophy in Iraq during 60s,70s , unluckily not current era
I am afriad to comment on this man.
Who do you think is the greatest mathematician of all time?
Off course, it's me!
can i get a autograph or selfie. please..
The great pyramid creators in ancient egypt must be up there.
either gauss or euler
Queen Victoria actually said Bertrands mother should be flogged for her feminist views.
ain't he a pistol[the queen]?
Perhaps Victoria should have been flogged. She’s as tight as Elizabeth I
How did he meet his first wife in the summer of 1899 but married her in 1894? Maybe you got these two dates mixed up
I misspoke 😄He met his first wife the summer of 1889
10:36 LOL
tentative tiptoeing thru the tulips ...
didn't Wittengenstein die at young age ?
You didn't mentioned the copplestone-bertrand debate of existence of God
"... after kind of being allover the place."?!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video despite not being a fan of Russell, he's a typical leftie, not a Liberal despite what he claimed.
a brief history, an individual, with an attitude, due to an emotional trauma, in his life....
20th Century? He was 27 years old when that century started.
Greatest Sciolist of all time
BTW, the pronunciation is prinkipia, not prinsipia. The word in not an English word, but a Latin word, and therefore should be pronounced as it would be in Latin.
Why call his brother Frank, and call Bertrand, Russell like its his first name? That just really bugged me sorry 2:18
It is usual in biographies to refer to the subject of the biography by surname. When other members of the subject's family are mentioned, their first name is used to distinguish them from each other, and from the subject.
I first heard about Bertrand Russell reading the graphic novel Logicomix