Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

by Bertrand Russell · audio summary, about 7 min

A classic collection of essays exploring how scientific method and modern symbolic logic can reform philosophy, reconcile human aspirations with an indifferent cosmos, and ground physical reality in immediate experience.

Key ideas

• Scientific philosophy requires ethical neutrality, replacing grand metaphysical systems with piecemeal logical analysis.
• Human freedom in an indifferent universe rests upon resignation to necessity and contemplation of independent ideals.
• Pure mathematics reveals a world of cold, timeless perfection founded upon symbolic logic rather than empirical fact.
• Physical objects and enduring matter are logical constructions built from momentary sense-data and perspectives.
• Advanced science dispenses with the traditional law of cause, utilizing mathematical differential equations instead.

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