Bertrand Russell

Skinner’s stories dealt with the psychological thought process and the challenges his characters faced. One of the biggest influences for Skinner’s transition to psychology was reading Bertrand Russell’s An Outline of Philosophy in 1927. After that, Skinner began to read John Watson’s work on behaviorism. Russell and Watson’s theories sparked Skinner’s interest in behavioral psychology. Skinner eventually went on to attend graduate school at Harvard University in 1928. He made many friends at…

Relating his situation to The Happy Life, a passage in Bertrand Russell’s Nobel Prize winning novel, it is clear that McCandless did not live a happy life. Russell notes how conscious self denial makes a man aware of his sacrifices which causes them to fail at living a happy or good life. Connecting this to McCandless, Chris was always mindful of the people…

Galileo said, "Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe." Furthering this statement Bertrand Russell adds, “Mathematics possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty.” Because mathematics in its simplest forms is undeniably complex and beautiful it teaches us about the Creator’s beauty and sovereignty by which he upholds all things as they were…

The end of the first world war was not as fulfilling as one might have initially thought. The so called “War to end all wars” as stated by Margaret MacMillen, was just a ripple before the tidal wave. World War I was successful only at forming new problems and expanding others. Firstly, WWI was caused by Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, Industrialism, and Alliances that were governing powerful countries across the world. These drove the globe into its first World War and in return led to…

World War I was one of the most gruesome wars in history, with a death toll of 8.5 million and 20 million were left injured as a result of the war. Why so many innocent people joined to fight in the war? It was because of the glorification of war and people romanticized about experiences in war. The government told half-truths to the people in order to boost their nationalism which would benefit them when fighting the war. As a result, most of the civilian population believed that war was…

Penn Jillette is a staunch atheist, or as he puts it “I am beyond atheism”. He does not believe in God, and even thinks of existence as a more positive experience without the existence or idea of a God. He believes that God does not exist and a world without God is better off in the long run. Jillette has many arguments opposing the existence of God. Mr. Jillette begins his argument opposing the existence of God by giving a definition of atheism, which he defines as “not believing in God,” or…

professor of Psychology at New York University, wrote the book Faith of the Fatherless, the Psychology of Atheism, which talks about how atheist’s relationship with their father affects their relationship with God. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, David Hume, Jean-Paul Sartre, Voltaire, and Ludwig Feuerbach were famous intellectual atheists with dead, weak, abusive, or absent fathers. Vitz argues that the absence of a good, living father usually leads to the abandonment of…

T.S. ELIOT’S THOUGHTS IN HIS WRITINGS ARE CLEAR MIRROR OF MODERN LIFE Dr. Basappa Y. Bangari Associate Professor Head Department of Indian and Foreign Languages Garden City University Bengaluru-560049, Karnataka, India bangari163@gmail.com +919448377922 Abstract: This paper attempted to understand influence of modern life on Eliot’s thoughts and writings. Therefore Eliot’s thoughts in his writings are considered as a clear mirror of modern life. After reading Miss Weston’s book “From Ritual to…

Our concept of Modern Political Thought is mainly a derivative of the 17th and 18th century, whereas Classical Political Thought had its birth before the modern era. As a result, even somewhat politically-adept modern citizens seldom draw upon ‘modern’ philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. Plato and Aristotle, who predate both Hobbes and Locke by over a thousand years, are even further from these citizens’ minds. As is stands, many individuals have difficulty finding pertinence in…

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quakes like a duck, then it probably is a duck . Inductive reasoning is defined as “the reasoning which the premises seek to supply strong evidence for the truth of the conclusion ”. It is not rare that we use inductive reasoning in our daily lives, we predict the future events based on past experiences. For example if a lady goes to an Italian restaurant every Monday for lunch, the next Monday at lunch time, you will probably expect to see her…