 That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms...  The Atlantic Monthly - Sivu 5231914Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Scott R. Burson, Jerry L. Walls - 2009 - 312 sivua
...nihilism squarely in the face. Consider the eloquent yet chilling words of naturalist Bertrand Russell: That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...the end they were achieving; that his origin, his hopes, his fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms;... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - 1999 - 1020 sivua
...Menschheit finden wir bei Bertrand Russell, in seinem Essay "A free man's worship" (11903; 1974, 41): "That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius,... | |
 | Nicholas Humphrey - 1999 - 290 sivua
...people be getting in return for losing their hoped-for future? Bert rand Russell elegiacally said what. "That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collisions of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity... | |
 | Charles W. Colson, Nancy Pearcey - 1999 - 600 sivua
...Worship. (With a title like that, Russell clearly understood that he was proposing an alternative faith). "Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 1999 - 274 sivua
...beliefs, ate but the outcome of accidenral collocations of atoms; that no fite, no heroism, no inrensiry of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labouts of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspitation, all the noonday btighrness of human genius,... | |
 | Alvin Plantinga - 2000 - 528 sivua
...Daniel Dennett in Darwin's Dangerous Idea*0 or Bertrand Russell in "A Free Man's Worship": you think that "man is the product of causes which had no prevision...are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms."41 (Perhaps you even go so far as to add, with Richard Dawkins, that the very idea that there... | |
 | Ann Banfield - 2007 - 456 sivua
...readings like Mrs. Swithin's Outline of History or the assertions of Russell's "A Free Man's Worship" "that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought...an individual life beyond the grave," "that all the labours of the ages, . . . are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system," that... | |
 | Donald Freed - 2000 - 173 sivua
...And then there is my companion and editor PRF, who gave me the key. For M and K and H—with love. "Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving ...no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond... | |
 | Richard F. Carlson - 2000 - 280 sivua
...nature and any ultimate purpose to human existence. As Whitehead's contemporary Bertrand Russell put it, "Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving" and that predestine him "to extinction in the vast death of the solar system."2 It is not hard to see... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 2010 - 494 sivua
...Man's Worship," first published in i903, articulated the implications of the scientific worldview: That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labours of the 24. A useful survey is Passmore. A Hundred Kara of Philosophy; see chap. 9 on Moore... | |
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