What Bertrand Russell thinks about motivation
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. 1917, in their own words. Our reading of what Bertrand Russell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut as men grow more civilized, incentives based on hope become increasingly preferable to those that are based on fear. It would be far better that men should be rewarded for working well than that they should be punished for working badly.