Hello there!
Some days ago our teacher showed us a text from Bertrand Russell. He wanted us to appreciate how beautiful the text was. The truth is it was really well-written, and I did like it, but who was Bertrand Russell?
I was curious about that man, partly because I felt identified with his three passions (love, knowledge and pity), and I wanted to know him better. Although our teacher talked about him in general lines, I needed to know more. That's why I searched some more information about him.
Russel was a philosopher, mathematician, historian, writer, politic activist and Nobel laureate, along with many more careers. He was a pacifist and stood against imperialism, which is astounding, considering his aristocratic roots. However, his family was quite radical for their times: his parents were advocates of birth control and her maternal grandmother stood for women education.
However, Russell's convictions become even more shocking when we travel back in time and discover that he lived through one of the darkest times of History: he was born in 1872, and died in 1970. That means he lived both First World War and Second World War, along with many more wars, such as Vietnam's War. How could a man stand for peace during those turbulent times? He was, in fact, imprisoned during World War I because of that pacifist way of thinking.
So, who was Bertrand Russell, after all? He was a multifaceted man, for sure, but his ideals took him further. He was a revolutionary, and his words will sound forever in the memory of History.
