 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
 | Phil Fernandes - 2002 - 254 sivua
...all finish our meaningless journeys in total nothingness. The famous atheist Bertrand Russell wrote: That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and Ms beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity... | |
 | Gregory S. Cootsona - 2002 - 124 sivua
...unsurprising that the twentieth-century atheist and philosophical titan Bertrand Russell could state bluntly: "[M]an is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving."16 Offering a doctrine of creation in this environment presents a formidable task. It requires... | |
 | Murray Miles - 2003 - 698 sivua
...human condition, even if the scientific outlook itself is much more alien to Sartre than to Russell: 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,... | |
 | Peter J. Bowler - 2003 - 485 sivua
...Man's Worship" of 1903, Bertrand Russell summed up the image of humanity's place in the world thus: That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision...achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and his fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that... | |
 | Carl Lotus Becker - 2003 - 200 sivua
...regarded as part of the cosmic process, fated to extinction with it. Let us listen to Bertrand Russell: That man is the product of causes which had no prevision...the end they were achieving; that his origin, his *Eos, or the Wider Aspects of Cosmogony, p. 55; quoted in Dampier-Whetham, A History of Science, p.... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 2003 - 370 sivua
...presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. That man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that bis origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental... | |
 | Francis J. Beckwith, William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland - 2009 - 397 sivua
...good and evil, in other words, nothing! Here is another description of Russell's view of the world: 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,... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - 2004 - 212 sivua
...presents for our belief. Amid such a world, if anywhere, our ideals henceforward must find a home. 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,... | |
 | George T. Menake - 2004 - 454 sivua
...modern expression of this tradition's concept of man can be found in Bertrand Russell when he writes: "man is the product of causes which had no prevision...are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms!"56 However, an early modern exponent of this tradition, Francis Bacon, believed that philosophy... | |
 | Immortality Institute - 2004 - 296 sivua
...Russell certainly thought so. He wrote these depressing words: "That man is the product of causes that had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that...but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; 252 that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve individual life beyond... | |
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