La conquista de la felicidad 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).

La conquista de la felicidad pdf by Bertrand Russell

Pese a ser un libro que, en ocasiones, parece un manual de autoayuda y al que -para mi gusto- sobran algunos t?picos, investiga con bastante acierto sobre lo que nos hace felices e infelices. Es necesario reconocer que Bertrand Russell escribi? la obra nada menos que en 1930, momento en que el texto era m?s que progresista. De hecho, todav?a hoy puede ser considerado un texto plenamente vigente. Yo mismo podr?a pronunciar hoy una de las afirmaciones clave que introducen la segunda parte del libro, las causas de la felicidad: Las conversaciones y los libros de algunos de mis amigos casi me han hecho llegar a la conclusi?n de que la felicidad en el mundo moderno es ya imposible. Sin embargo, he comprobado que esa opini?n tiende a desintegrarse ante la introspecci?n, los viajes al extranjero y las conversaciones con mi jardinero. Tambi?n nos recuerda que la felicidad puede cada uno encontrarla en un sitio diferente: cuando yo era ni?o, conoc? a un hombre que reventaba de felicidad y cuyo trabajo consist?a en cavar pozos.