Proposed roads to freedom

Paperback, 130 pages

English language

Published May 12, 2008 by Arc Manor.

ISBN:: 978-1-60450-096-7
OCLC Number:: 440762846

(1 review)

THE attempt to conceive imaginatively a better ordering of human society than the destructive and cruel chaos in which mankind has hitherto existed is by no means modern: it is at least as old as Plato, whose ``Republic'' set the model for the Utopias of subsequent philosophers. Whoever contemplates the world in the light of an ideal - whether what he seeks be intellect, or art, or love, or simple happiness, or all together - must feel a great sorrow in the evils that men needlessly allow to continue, and - if he be a man of force and vital energy - an urgent desire to lead men to the realization of the good which inspires his creative vision.

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enzyme reviewed Proposed Roads To Freedom by Bertrand Russell

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3 stars

Russell has some good explanations of the ideas and policies he proposes, but also tends to leave ideas unqualified by the moral and ethical perspectives that must be wrestled with when proposing a "road to freedom", nor does he provide many historical examples. Overall, this book serves as a nice survey of those authors whose work is attributed as igniting schools of thought.