Betrand Russell Life and Philosophy

if you know anybody please mention that okay Bertrand Russell I still know it's not true actually the key point to remember with Russell he was born in 1871 a blender flyer 72 72 1872 then at the height of Victorian England he wasn't one generation removed from us or two generations removed for us he was he's two world wars the Vietnam War and the coming of the modern era removed from us his childhood experience was not one of the 1870s or 1890s or 1900's it was of the early 1800s to the late 1790s his parents died when he was quite young and so he was raised by his grandparents now his grandparents were conservative by the standards of their own generation so if we'll see this again with Heidegger Heidegger was raised in the 17th century Russell was a little bit better than that but he really his upbringing was very peculiar even for his time on one hand he was a privileged class he was born to a family of minor Nobles in England which is in 70s that's the way to fly but he was very strange upbringing by grandparents that these are the grandparents of the Victorian era that they seem like a caricature one you could not mention sex sex did not exist as a subject there will be no personal contact with your children that's bad children need to be scolded you never show emotion I mean all of the sort of generalities that we have about the Victorian era all of the wrong concepts the oversimplifications no that was them they were whenever you think of a Victorian area this was a highly religious extraordinarily rule-bound very cold showing emotion was showing weakness you never show weakness and therefore you never show emotion and so Russell grew up sort of highly isolated not just from other people although that was partially true because they were raised primarily on the state and primarily with private tutors but also from his own period he they were not allowed really to know what was going on in the world because that might damage their thinking and so as Russell grew up he became a young man and as all young men are as young people generally you became interested in things like other people ideas sexuality none of this was available to and ...