What I Believe by Bertrand Russell6/9/2023 Aided by science and good education, these desires can be mitigated and refined, and the quality of life improved. Desires are good or bad only in how they affect us and the people around us theoretical ethics is superfluous. Russell believes that the current morality is a curious blend of utilitarianism and superstition, but the superstitious part had the stronger hold, as is natural, since superstition is the origin of moral rules. Grappling with the concepts of morality, religion, good life, moral rules and happiness, he makes his disdain for the categorising tendencies of moral philosophy abundantly clear the influence of Freud is also very visible. There's something beautiful about the way Russell holds onto the glorious "individual" while condemning the noxious careerist individualism engendered by an all pervading bourgeois consciousness.
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