{"id":3684,"date":"2023-08-10T19:28:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T23:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/bertrand-russell-on-the-salve-for-our-modern-helplessness-and-overwhelm-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-08-10T19:28:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T23:28:21","slug":"bertrand-russell-on-the-salve-for-our-modern-helplessness-and-overwhelm-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/bertrand-russell-on-the-salve-for-our-modern-helplessness-and-overwhelm-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand Russell on the Salve for Our Modern Helplessness and Overwhelm \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cTo be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control,\u201d philosopher Martha Nussbaum concluded in considering how to live with our human fragility<\/a>. And yet in the face of overwhelming uncertainty, when the world seems to splinter and crumble in the palm of our civilization\u2019s hand, something deeper and more robust than blind trust is needed to keep us anchored to our own goodness \u2014 something pulsating with rational faith in the human spirit<\/a> and a profound commitment to goodness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That is what Bertrand Russell<\/a> (May 18, 1872\u2013February 2, 1970) explores in the out-of-print treasure New Hopes for a Changing World<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>), composed a year after he received the Nobel Prize<\/a>, while humanity was still shaking off the dust and dread of its Second World War and already shuddering with the catastrophic nuclear threat of the Cold War. <\/p>\n

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