1 Resource on Critical Thinking
Like most people whose ideas were ahead of their times (or at least ahead of the cherished prejudices of the conventional), Bertrand Russell held many unpopular and controversial views, however his logic was invariably difficult or impossible to refute. In a Free Man’s Worship, Russell peers unblinkingly into the infinite void and arrives at a discomforting conclusion. He thought that evidence gathered through the scientific method of inquiry indicated that we live in a universe without purpose or plan. He felt that the Laws of Thermodynamics predict that the universe will end in an entropic death, and no matter how humans may strive, their own end, decreed by nature, is certain. Yet, Russell believed that humans may have some freedom of choice. he thought we might ge able to assert a ‘subtle mastery over the thoughtless...