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This five minute video, a preview of a three-part series produced in 2005 for Ontario public television called “The Three Passions of Bertrand Russell,” features a recording of Russell reading passages from the prologue, entitled “What I Have Lived For.”
What I Have Lived For. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
1. Why does Russell call the three passions ‘simple’? 2. Why has he compared the three passions to great winds? 3. What, according to Russell, is the importance of love in life? 4. How does Russell’s definition of knowledge differ from what is commonly understood by the term?
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Jan 9, 2009 · A TVO 3 part series on the famous 20th Century philosopher Bertrand Russell. This series focuses on each of Bertrand Russell's three passions: Love, Truth, ...
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Nov 15, 2005 · What I Have Lived For. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
What were Russell’s passions? In the opening words of his Autobiography, Russell tells us that “Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.” (The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: Volume I, 1967).
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. For a recent brief, yet substantial, article on Dr. Chomsky's thought, see "Chomsky, Noam" in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, Ted Honderich, editor (1995), pp.132-133.
