What Bertrand Russell thinks about politics
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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3 dated positions, c. 1917 to c. 1918, in their own words. Our reading of what Bertrand Russell has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIt is by its effects outside economics and politics, at least as much as by effects inside them, that a social system should be judged.
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Their wordsThe aim of politics should be to make the lives of individuals as good as possible. There is nothing for the politician to consider outside or above the various men, women, and children who compose the world.
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Their wordsThe international spirit which we should wish to see produced will be something added to love of country, not something taken away.