(罗素) Russell - 1999 - Russell on Religion (Ed. Greenspan & Andersson)

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1、RUSSELLONRELIGIONRussellonReligioncontainsaselectionofwritingsdesignedtogivethereaderrepresentativematerialonallaspectsofhisthinkingonthissubject.Russellcontendswithreligionineverygenreofhiswritingfrommathematicaltreatisestohisventuresinfiction;asaphilosopher,historian,socialcriticandprivatein

2、dividual.StudentsatalllevelswillfindRussellonReligionavaluablepresentationofthedevelopmentanddiversityofBertrandRussell’sthinkingaboutreligion.LouisGreenspanisProfessorEmeritus,DepartmentofReligiousStudies,McMasterUniversityandformerDirectoroftheBertrandRussellEditorialProject.StefanAnderssoni

3、saresearchscholarattheBertrandRussellArchives,McMasterUniversity.RUSSELLON…Generaleditor’sintroductionA.C.GraylingRussellachievedpublicfame—oftenenough,notoriety—becauseofhisengagementinsocialandpoliticaldebates,becomingknowntoawideaudienceasaphilosopherinthepopularsenseoftheterm.Buthischiefco

4、ntributions,theonesthathavemadeapermanentdifferencetothehistoryofthought,lieinlogicandphilosophy;andtheyaresuchthathisinfluencebothonthematterandstyleoftwentieth-centuryphilosophy,principallyinitsAnglophoneform,ispervasive.ElsewhereIhavedescribedhiscontributionasconstitutingthe‘wall-paper’ofan

5、alyticphilosophy,inthesensethathissuccessors‘usetechniquesandideasdevelopedfromhisworkwithoutfeelingtheneed—sometimeswithoutrecognizingtheneed—tomentionhisname;whichisinfluenceindeed’.Russelldevotedmuchattentiontocentraltechnicalquestionsinphilosophicallogic,epistemologyandmetaphysics.Healsowr

6、oteextensivelyandforcefullyaboutmoral,religiousandpoliticalquestionsinwaysnotmerelyjournalistic.Muchofhisworkinalltheseareastooktheformofessays.Somehaveofcoursebeenfamouslycollected,constitutingafundamentalpartofthecanonoftwentieth-centuryanalyticphilosophy.Buttherearemanymorerichesinhiscopiou

7、soutput,theirvaluetosomedegreelostbecausetheyhavenothithertobeencollectedandeditedinsuchawayastodojusticetothedevelopmentandweightofhisthinkingaboutthesesubjects.Thisseries,inbringingtogetherRussell’schiefwritingsonmajorsubjectareasinan