– Jeg var virkelig skuffet av denne boken etter å ha blitt litt fan av Bertrand Russel.Jeg håpte for strenge og harde argumenter mot min religion som ville utfordre og provosere meg.Jeg fant heller ut at det han skrev var veldig fordomsfullt.Boken er en samling essays som er veldig knyttet til religion.Tittel-essayet feiler helt fordi,ikke på grunn av han selv,Russel feiler fullstendig å forstå moderne fysikk så hans argumenter mot Gud har nå blitt ødelagt.Et annet essay spør han om religion noen gang har gjort noe bra.Her er det iallefall klart at han ikke har lest mye historie. I essayet hvor han forteller hva han tror på, så seiler Russel kjapt vekk til det utopiske eventyrland der vitenskapen kan løse alle våre problemer og bare religion som står i dens vei. Bitter erfaring har fortalt oss at dette fungerer desverre ikke.Når vi tenker på Russel's egen erfaring av bitter skilsmisse og "ødelagte" barn,så er det virkelig trist å lese han om moral og etikk når hans eget liv var en slik katastrofe.Ray Monk sa at han praktisk talt hatet emnet.Dette er litt sterkt,men selvom han var en av de store logikerne,som en etiker og som en metafysiker så utelatte han mye viktig ser det ut som.
Why I am not a Christian
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'Devastating in its use of cold logic.' - The Independent
'The most robust as well as the most witty infidel since Voltaire and he can not fail to sharpen men's sense of what is entailed both in belief and unbelief.' - The Spectator
'What makes the book valuable is life-long uncompromising intellectual honesty.' - Times Literary Supplement
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While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief.
Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought we to behave? Russell snatches that comfort away, leaving us instead with other, more troublesome alternatives: responsibility, autonomy, self-awareness. He tells us that the time to live is now, the place to live is here, and the way to be happy is to ensure others are happy.
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While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief.
Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought we to behave? Russell snatches that comfort away, leaving us instead with other, more troublesome alternatives: responsibility, autonomy, self-awareness. He tells us that the time to live is now, the place to live is here, and the way to be happy is to ensure others are happy.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9780415325103
- Utgave
- 2. utg.
- Utgivelsesår
- 2004
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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'Devastating in its use of cold logic.' - The Independent
'The most robust as well as the most witty infidel since Voltaire and he can not fail to sharpen men's sense of what is entailed both in belief and unbelief.' - The Spectator
'What makes the book valuable is life-long uncompromising intellectual honesty.' - Times Literary Supplement
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'Devastating in its use of cold logic.' - The Independent
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'Bertrand Russell was a mixture of convention and irregularity.' - The Daily Mail
'What makes the book valuable is its life-long uncompromising intellectual honesty.' - Times Literary Supplement
'There is no one who uses the English language more beguilingly than Russell, no one smoothes the kinks and creases more artfully out of the most crumpled weaves of thought.' - The Times
'The most robust as well as the most witty infidel since Voltaire and he can not fail to sharpen men's sense of what is entailed both in belief and unbelief.' - The Spectator