Alan Watt - The Controllers - Episode 9 - "Bertrand Russell" - Dec. 13, 2023

Bertrand Russell died in 1970, several months shy of his 98th birthday. He was mostly known in the academic world for his work in mathematics and philosophy. In the years between World War I and World War II, Russell and his second wife, Dora acquired a reputation as leaders of a progressive socialist movement that was stridently anticlerical, openly defiant of conventional sexual morality, and dedicated to educational reform. Russell’s published work during this period consists mainly of journalism and popular books written in support of these causes.

Many of these books—such as On Education (1926), Marriage and Morals (1929), and The Conquest of Happiness (1930)—enjoyed big sales and helped establish Russell in the eyes of the general public as a philosopher with important things to say about the moral, political, and social issues of the day.

With Dora, he started an experimental school for children, where his unconventional ideas about sexual morality could be advanced. Russell and Dora had two children together, but their marriage was strained to the breaking point when Dora, simply acting out their defiance of sexual morality, chose to have two children with another man, and raise those children alongside the two she had with Russell.

In 1952 Russell married his fourth wife, Edith Finch, and finally, at the age of 80, found lasting marital harmony. Russell devoted his last years to campaigning against nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War, assuming once again the role of gadfly of the establishment. The sight of Russell in extreme old age taking his place in mass demonstrations and inciting young people to civil disobedience through his passionate rhetoric inspired a new generation of admirers.

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