What Bertrand Russell thinks about courage
British philosopher and logician (1872 to 1970), also a social critic; co-author with Alfred North Whitehead of Principia Mathematica (1910 to 1913), author of The Problems of Philosophy (1912), awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
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1 dated position, c. 1930, in their own words. Our reading of what Bertrand Russell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingEvery form of courage, in women as in men, should be admired as much as a soldier's physical courage
Their wordsEvery form of courage, whether in men or women, should be admired as much as physical courage is admired in a soldier.
↗The Conquest of Happiness (1930)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book