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The Reith Lectures: Bertrand Russell - Authority and the Individual: The Role of Individuality

1948: Bertrand Russell - Authority and the Individual

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The Role of Individuality

Bertrand Russell - Authority and the Individual

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Bertrand Russell argues for the importance of individual initiative in a community.

Bertrand Russell considers the importance of individual initiative to a community, and argues for more local autonomy, and less centralisation, in his third Reith lecture.

The inaugural Reith Lecturer is the philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer Bertrand Russell. One of the founders of analytic philosophy and a Nobel Laureate, he is the author of Principia Mathematica, and the bestselling History of Western Philosophy, written in 1946. His Reith lecture series is entitled 'Authority and the Individual'. 

In his third lecture, entitled 'The Role of Individuality', he considers the importance of individual initiative to a community, and argues for flexibility, local autonomy, and less centralisation in society. Modern organisations, he says, must be more flexible and less oppressive to the human spirit if life is to be saved from boredom.

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Philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell gives the inaugural Reith lecture series.

The philosopher, mathematician and social reformer Bertrand Russell gives the inaugural Reith lecture series on the subject of Authority and the Individual.

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