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Sceptical essays

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"This volume beings with an essay on 'The Value of Scepticism,' and all its seventeen essays have this in common, that they advocate a considerable degree of scepticism. The earlier essays give in popular form scientific and philosophical reasons for an undogmatic attitude in all departments of knowledge. Then there is a group of essays setting out the moral and ethical advantages of a realization that our beliefs are all subject to error. The third group applies scepticism to politics; while the last essay in the volume suggests--though with due scepticism--certain things likely to happen in politics, economics, family life, art, and literature, if our industrial society develops without a cataclysm"--From dust jacket.
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Publication date
1928.
Call number
645044
Creator
Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Gift of Ann E. Hardham, John C. Hardham and Virginia B. Hardham, January 2012. From the library of Elizabeth von Arnim, later Countess Russell (1866-1941).
Dimensions
20 cm
Associated people
Von Arnim, Elizabeth, (1866-1941,)
Associated organizations
George Allen & Unwin Ltd,
Unwin Brothers (Firm),
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