Sceptical essays
by Bertrand Russell · first published 1966
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I’d highly recommend Sceptical Essays(1928) by Bertrand Russell to anybody interested in the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/144355.Sceptical_Essays
on “Education Is a System of Indoctrination of the Young (1989) [video]” ↗…Plain Speaker, Table-Talk Emerson - Essays: First and Second Series Stevenson - Virginibus Puerisque, Across the Plains Santayana - Little Essays ed. Logan Pearsall Smith Russell - Unpopular Essays, Sceptical Essays Mencken - Selected Prejudices Wilde - Intentions James - Talks to Students, Memories and Studies
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite Essays/Longform blogposts” ↗…to mention. A list of books I've read more times than any others - many times each: SARK's first 4-5 books, Robert Fulghum's books, Emerson's essays, Hazlitt's essays, Bertrand Russell's essays (e.g. Sceptical Essays, Unpopular Essays), GK Chesterton's essays and his book Heretics, Nietzsche's books, William James' essays, RL Stevenson's essays, La Rochefoucauld's Maxims, La Bruyere's Characters, Kurt Vonnegut's The…
on “Ask HN: What are your favorite books?” ↗…Life, Chomsky's political works, GK Chesterton (e.g. Heretics), Freakonomics, Cialdini's Influence, JR Saul (e.g. Voltaire's Bastards, The Doubter's Companion), Bertrand Russell (e.g. Unpopular Essays, Sceptical Essays, Freedom and Organization 1814-1914), Santayana (e.g. Egotism in German Philosophy), Scott Noble[0] and Adam Curtis' documentaries. The Devil's Dictionary, Metaphors We Live By, The Moral Animal If I…
on “Ask HN: Favorite “Adam Ruins Everything”-esque media? (blogs, podcasts, etc)” ↗…immensely wealthy and I am the working poor. I'm pleased to see these recommendations -- insofar as they are "selected" works -- showing a practical concern for the good of modern society. I'll recommend Sceptical Essays, Unpopular Essays, and The Conquest of Happiness (all by Bertrand Russell).
on “The Only Four Books Bill Gates Has Rated Five Stars” ↗