#The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

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From Bertrand Russell’s The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

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Example of Bertrand Russell's humour (His 1918 prison sentence) "I was rather interested in my fellow-prisoners, who seemed to me in no way morally inferior to the rest of the population, though they were on the whole slightly below the usual level of intelligence, as was shown by their having been caught. I was much cheered, on my arrival, by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion and I replied "agnostic." He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: "Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God." This remark kept me cheerful for about a week. One time, when I was reading, I laughed so loud that the warder came round to silence me, yelling: "You must remember that prison is a place of punishment!". — Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (1967–1969), Ch. VIII: The First War, p. 257 Bertrand Russell was sentenced to Brixton prison in 1918 on the tenuous grounds that he had interfered in British war time foreign policy. Russell's activism against British participation in World War One led to severe fines, a loss of freedom of travel within Britain (near house arrest, Russell was permitted to travel only by foot) and the non-renewal of his fellowship at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Russell was eventually sentenced to prison in 1918 on the grounds that he had interfered in British foreign policy – he had argued that British workers should be wary of the United States Army on British soil, for it had seasoned and expert experience in strike-breaking.

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Bertrand Russell’s definitively heterosexual quotes about G.E. Moore:

#he was as heterosexual as one can get but if Moore was up for it… #what do you mean by he was beautiful and slim with #imagine your fiance writes to you about some guy that he admired almost as if he were a God #it’s so funny #the first quote is from Ray Monk’s article about Moore #and the second is from Russell’s autobiography #the screenshot itself is from Wikipedia tho #analytic philosophy #bertrand russell #Bertrand Russell quotes #20th century philosophy #definitively heterosexual quotes #history #g.e. moore #ge moore #George Edward Moore #philosophy textpost #philosophy #philosophy shitpost

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For as long as men have been writing history, women have been making it - and it is very different from men's, argues Dora Russell: while ever men have thought about the way the world should be organised, so too have women - and their plans have been very different from men's. But the only history, the only tradition we are presented with is the male view, and all of women's different priorities and plans, visions and values have been lost; and according to Dora Russell we can no longer afford this. To her it is not just desirable but absolutely necessary that women's way of viewing the world becomes a basis for our society. This has been one of the guiding principles of her life.

She has written her autobiography (The Tamarisk Tree, volumes I and II, and volume III is currently being completed) in which she gives the detail of her life and describes and comments on the events of the twentieth century - from a woman's point of view. Seeing the century through women's eyes is in itself a remarkable experience: events look very different when a burning issue of the 1920s is that of making it legal for women to have information on birth control. But seeing the changes through Dora Russell's eyes has an added dimension.

In 1923, after having visited both Russia and America (and China), Dora Russell got a contract to write a book on the implications of industrialism. She had seen the optimism of communism and visited the heartland of capitalism, but not for her was the major male preoccupation of ‘which is better?’. It was what both systems had in common which for Dora Russell became an overriding issue, for both assumed that technology would solve human problems. It was an assumption she did not share and one that she saw as decidedly dangerous and destructive.

Her view was not understood - certainly not by Bertrand Russell (universally renowned for his powers of comprehension), and not by the intellectuals of the time. As so many women before and since have done, she lost her confidence in her explanation and lost the taste for the task. She wrote The Right To Be Happy - as a sort of substitute, she says. But in 1982 the book on industrialism was written - The Religion of the Machine Age. For sixty years she had been testing her idea that only men could have invented machines and made a god of them: only men could fail to see that the machine is not the answer to the problems of human existence. Dora Russell's autobiography contains sixty years of observations on men and their machines.

‘Ah well,’ I said to her, 'you know that I keep saying every fifty years women have to reinvent the wheel. We discover something new but after fifty vears have passed it has been lost, and has to be rediscovered again. You put forward your ideas in the 1920s and now, a bit over fifty years later you are putting them forward again.'

'You mean I've lived long enough to come full circle, to be back in fashion again?' she asked me, and then added with a touch of humour and a trace of anger, 'I don't recommend the forty-nine years in between' (1982).

-Dale Spender, There’s Always Been a Women’s Movement This Century

#dale spender #Dora Russell #industrialism #patriarchy

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Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

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　バートランド・ラッセルの言葉 366_画像版 n.2386j ( May 14, 2023) 　あなた（出版社Norton の社主のノートン: W. W. Norton, 1891-1945）は、私の兄がマルセイユで急死したのを（新聞などで）ご覧になったでしょう。私は兄から称号（爵位）を受け継ぎましたが（注：第三代ラッセル伯爵／兄のフランクは第二代ラッセル伯）、兄は破産していたため、お金は一銭も相続していません。爵位は私にとって大変迷惑なもので（注：特段の事情がない限り、爵位は返上できないため）、どうしたらよいか途方に暮れていますが、とにかく私の著作に関連して使用されることを望みません。…..私の爵位を私の著作の宣伝に利用しないことについて、あなたを信頼できると、私は確信しています。

You ( = W. W. Norton) will have seen that my brother died suddenly in Marseilles. I inherit from him a title, but not a penny of money, as he was bankrupt. A title is a great nuisance to me, and I am at a loss what to do, but at any rate I do not wish it employed in connection with any of my literary work. … but I am sure I can rely upon you not to make use of my title in the way of publicity. Source: Letter to W. W. Norton, 11 March, 1931 In: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.2 More info.: Not available

＜寸言＞ 　英国においては、爵位は本家の長男が継ぐことになっていますが、祖父のジョン・ラッセルは、第６代ベッドフォード公爵家の三男でした。しかし、２度英国の総理大臣を務めた功績から、ビクトリア女王から伯爵の称号（及び Richmond Park 内の屋敷 Pembroke Lodge の永代使用権）が与えられました。ラッセルの両親は早くなくなったため、兄のフランクが第二代ラッセル伯を、ラッセルが1931年に（兄の急死により）第三代ラッセル伯を継ぎました。 　ラッセルはいろいろなところで貴族制度は廃止したほうがよいと書いていますが、爵位は特別な事情がない限り原則として返納することはできませんでした。そこで、自分の執筆・講演活動に関連しては称号を使用しないように関係者に求めていました。

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The educator Alexander Sutherland Neill passed away on September 23rd 1973 in Ipswich, he grew up being call Ally by his family.

The second of  today's anniversaries and all round good guy, I mean Ivor Cutler worked for him so he has to be! 

And another name you are familiar with, but A.S. Bell, as he was known, was a pioneer, or indeed a rebel against the conformists views of the era in education

The son of a schoolteacher, Ally graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an M.A. degree in 1912 and became headmaster of the Gretna Green School in 1914. He recorded his initial teaching experiences in the autobiographical novel A Dominie’s Log and wrote several sequels to this work, with some of them being reprinted in 1975 as The Dominie Books of A.S. Neill, dominie being an old Scottish word for schoolmaster, it derives the Latin domine.

Neill and others founded an international school near Dresden., in 1921. The school was moved to Sonntagberg, Austria, three years later but was soon closed because its unconventional curriculum and teaching methods were opposed by the local authorities. In 1924 Neill moved the school to Lyme Regis, Dorset, in England, and named it Summerhill after the building he had leased for its quarters. In 1927 he moved the school to its permanent home in Leiston, Suffolk. Summerhill School became internationally known for its self-governing student-teacher body and its flexible curriculum that emphasizes the student’s own motivation to learn. Neill drew considerable criticism for his permissive attitudes toward academic discipline, but by the 1960s his school had become popular for its progressive approach to child rearing.

Neill’s principal book about his educational methods, Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, stimulated debates about alternatives to conventional schooling. The book was more influential in the United States, West Germany, and Japan than in the British Isles

His other books include The Problem Child, The Problem Parent, The Problem Family, The Free Child, and an autobiography, Neill! Neill! Orange Peel!

In the early 1960s Neill joined Bertrand Russell on a sit in demonstration for CND ( Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) at Holy Loch against the Polaris missile. Neill was taken by the police and spent a night in jail.

In 1973 his health declined and he was admitted to Ipswich Hospital. Later he was taken to the small local hospital where he died peacefully on September 23rd 1973. 

In 1999  The Government sought to close Summerhill.= and the case ended up in the Law Courts, where a judge dismissed the case against them. Summerhill celebrated 100 years of teaching last year.

Neill’s daughter daughter Zoë is the Principal of Summerhill School which continues to thrive.

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"War should be treated as murder is treated. It should be regarded with equal horror and with equal aversion. There are many ways of showing courage without having to kill other people, and it is such ways that should be encouraged."

― Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Volume II. (1944-1967), Ch. XVI: The Foundation: A New Approach to Peace, p. 467

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February 28, 2023

Okay, this is going to be a very technical post, so try to hold on or read past this.

Renormalization, at first, seems like magic, because it tends to hide away the infinities that seem to pop in physics. There are actually two ways of going about this, the other being regularization, which posits that there is some new physics that we just don’t know about.

But renormalization takes care of the problem at the source by considering an often overlooked but powerful resource, which is scale invariance. Scale invariance states that all the hubbub of the typical scale must exist in smaller scales. And so an electron, which looks like it’s alone, when viewed at high resolution, gets surrounded by a bunch of positrons and photons that makes the electron behave differently at that scale.

Which means that in higher energy the fine structure constant gets smaller, which means that odder things happen at higher scales, which is actually pretty intuitive. This idea basically got applied to solid state physics, which does have this cutoff point naturally, and it was at that point that the idea, which was used with significant discomfort, was more widely accepted.

Generalization of this idea leads to very delightful terms as ‘dangerously irrelevant operator’, which is a good description of myself. And there was a quote which talks about this development and kind of dismissing these early discomfort with renormalization which references Bertrand Russell’s autobiography which I will present in full here.

In the modern world, if communities are unhappy, it is often because they have ignorances, habits, beliefs, and passions, which are dearer to them than happiness or even life. I find many men in our dangerous age who seem to be in love with misery and death, and who grow angry when hopes are suggested to them. They think hope is irrational and that, in sitting down to lazy despair, they are merely facing facts.

I was going to write about this sentiment in a completely different context, and I’m absolutely chuffed that my pique at some quantum theory has led to this gem of a quote.

#particle physics #science #research

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Agnes Callard’s Marriage of the Minds#Agnes #Callards #Marriage #Minds

Jonathan Lear, Agnes’s colleague, said that, when he first learned about the reasons for her divorce, he was reminded of a passage in Bertrand Russell’s autobiography. Russell describes how he went bicycling one afternoon and, as he was riding along a country road, realized that he no longer loved his wife. “Something similar happened to Agnes,” Lear said, but instead of bicycling back and…

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From Bertrand Russell’s The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

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I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken.

Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

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Betrand Russell autobiography film adaptation but the whole soundtrack is by Taylor Swift

#no but listen this book is very fun Russell just tells anecdotes and talks shit about people in the footnotes and then makes an insightful #comment about the nature of human relationships #it’s enormously biased and that’s the fun of it #not that i want it very much but it’s a fun idea it could be done like fleabag-style type of narration with him looking straight #at the camera #Yeah a terrible idea i know #20th century philosophy #analytic philosophy #bertrand russell #ludwig wittgenstein #movie adaptation #biographies #autobiography #taylor swift #not a swiftie #nothing against them i just know like 5 songs by taylor tops #dark academia #academia #philosophy #philosophy shitpost #philosophy memes #shitposting #insomnia ramblings

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My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Bertrand Russell, “Greek Excercises”, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell

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