Elogio dell'ozio pdf

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, computer science and various areas of analytic philosophy, especially philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and metaphysics.
He was one of the early 20th century's most prominent logicians, and a founder of analytic philosophy, along with his predecessor Gottlob Frege, his friend and colleague G. E. Moore and his student and protégé Ludwig Wittgenstein. Russell with Moore led the British "revolt against idealism". Together with his former teacher A. N. Whitehead, Russell wrote Principia Mathematica, a milestone in the development of classical logic, and a major attempt to reduce the whole of mathematics to logic (see Logicism). Russell's article "On Denoting" has been considered a "paradigm of philosophy".
Russell was a pacifist who championed anti-imperialism and chaired the India League.He occasionally advocated preventive nuclear war, before the opportunity provided by the atomic monopoly had passed and he decided he would "welcome with enthusiasm" world government. He went to prison for his pacifism during World War I. Later, Russell concluded that the war against Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany was a necessary "lesser of two evils" and also criticized Stalinist totalitarianism, condemned the United States' war on Vietnam and was an outspoken proponent of nuclear disarmament. In 1950, Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought". He was also the recipient of the De Morgan Medal (1932), Sylvester Medal (1934), Kalinga Prize (1957), and Jerusalem Prize (1963).

Elogio dell'ozio pdf by Bertrand Russell

Elogio dell’ozio è il primo dei saggi che compongono questa raccolta, in cui Bertrand Russell tratta delle più diverse tematiche politiche e sociali. I pericoli derivanti dall’eccesso di zelo e l’importanza della contemplazione; architettura e questioni sociali; critica del comunismo, critica del fascismo e argomenti in favore del socialismo; cinismo dei giovani e conformismo della società moderna; uomini contro insetti e riflessioni sull’anima; l’educazione, la salute mentale, le comete...
Temi diversi ma, come scrive lo stesso Russell nella Prefazione, tutti collegati da una tesi generale: "Il mondo soffre per colpa dell’intolleranza e del bigottismo, e per l’errata convinzione che ogni azione energica sia lodevole anche se male indirizzata; mentre la nostra società moderna, così complessa, ha bisogno di riflettere con calma, di mettere in discussione i dogmi e di esaminare i più disparati punti di vista con grande larghezza di idee."