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5.0
A great read, enrich with knowledge, critics, ideas.
The book is divided in 4 part, some part of the books discusses the fiction side of the book, and other discusses factual or non fiction side.
In first part Russell outlines and discuses the authors and the books that have influenced him in the youth, according to him the age of 15 to 22 is the one in which one explored and tries to reach to a point of ideology which he uses then rest of the life to see the world with that outlook, he further adds that after that age one hardly gets influenced and it will be a dramatic or take a lot if one changes his/her ideas after that age.
Russell said that he has been influenced greatly by Russian author Turgenev, although he mentioned both Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, but concede that because he read these two authors lately so it didn't leave much mark on him, apart from Turgenev, he is influenced by the writing of Ibsen, John Milton, Shelley, and Goethe. He talks in this book about how these authors influenced him, and which of the books of these author in particular shaped the minds of Russell.
Second part of the book was the most important for me, as it was very knowledgeable and full of wisdom, in this part Russell discusses various topics with regards to the education and politics. Here he talks about the education, politics, democracy, freedom,
The third part is titled as Divertissement, it is a fictional part of the book, here Russell with his imagination pens down some of the fictional story which portrays a powerful message. He also described some of the stories of his dreams here.
The last part of the book is on War and peace, although the larger part of the book is being focused on the east and west rivalry of that mid 20th century between Soviet Union and west, but the things are still very much relevant today what he said in 1960s, worth reading topics in this part are, population pressure and war, race of the armament, destruction or prosperity. Russell tells us in this part how the wish of domination brought us to a point of total annihilation, he further discusses communism, capitalism and points out the responsibilities of a neutral in that war of economic production, he further discusses things such as population, he said that population has a direct link with the prosperity and collective well being of that particular nation, like India , china or other Easter nation with huge population and if it is keep increasing rapidly then the east can never able to sustain and enjoy the economic prosperity that west enjoys, no matter how much technological or economic production increases the overpopulation will keep all the generation on the same level as previous, and with overpopulation every efforts in this cause will be like throwing away everything in the sea, without gaining anything.
The book is divided in 4 part, some part of the books discusses the fiction side of the book, and other discusses factual or non fiction side.
In first part Russell outlines and discuses the authors and the books that have influenced him in the youth, according to him the age of 15 to 22 is the one in which one explored and tries to reach to a point of ideology which he uses then rest of the life to see the world with that outlook, he further adds that after that age one hardly gets influenced and it will be a dramatic or take a lot if one changes his/her ideas after that age.
Russell said that he has been influenced greatly by Russian author Turgenev, although he mentioned both Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, but concede that because he read these two authors lately so it didn't leave much mark on him, apart from Turgenev, he is influenced by the writing of Ibsen, John Milton, Shelley, and Goethe. He talks in this book about how these authors influenced him, and which of the books of these author in particular shaped the minds of Russell.
Second part of the book was the most important for me, as it was very knowledgeable and full of wisdom, in this part Russell discusses various topics with regards to the education and politics. Here he talks about the education, politics, democracy, freedom,
The third part is titled as Divertissement, it is a fictional part of the book, here Russell with his imagination pens down some of the fictional story which portrays a powerful message. He also described some of the stories of his dreams here.
The last part of the book is on War and peace, although the larger part of the book is being focused on the east and west rivalry of that mid 20th century between Soviet Union and west, but the things are still very much relevant today what he said in 1960s, worth reading topics in this part are, population pressure and war, race of the armament, destruction or prosperity. Russell tells us in this part how the wish of domination brought us to a point of total annihilation, he further discusses communism, capitalism and points out the responsibilities of a neutral in that war of economic production, he further discusses things such as population, he said that population has a direct link with the prosperity and collective well being of that particular nation, like India , china or other Easter nation with huge population and if it is keep increasing rapidly then the east can never able to sustain and enjoy the economic prosperity that west enjoys, no matter how much technological or economic production increases the overpopulation will keep all the generation on the same level as previous, and with overpopulation every efforts in this cause will be like throwing away everything in the sea, without gaining anything.
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