The Will to Doubt
eBook - ePub

The Will to Doubt

  1. 126 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Will to Doubt

About this book

One of modern history's great thinkers takes on prejudice, superstition, and conventional wisdom, using wit and insight to argue for a rational way of life.
In a brilliant series of essays, Bertrand Russell uses challenging skepticism and sharp humor to attack the obstacles to building a society based on reason.
Russell's thoughts are as lively and pertinent today as when they were written. His topics range from the defects of the education system to the failure of the belief among the younger generation, from our mistaken concepts of democracy to the ever-present threat to freedom throughout the world—even in the West which prides itself so much on being free.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Can Men Be Rational?
  5. Free Thought and Official Propaganda
  6. On the Value of Scepticism
  7. On Youthful Cynicism
  8. Is Science Superstitious?
  9. “Useless” Knowledge
  10. What Is the Soul?
  11. The Ancestry of Fascism
  12. Stoicism and Mental Health
  13. Modern Homogeneity
  14. Men versus Insects
  15. On Comets
  16. Copyright Page