The Problems of Philosophy

With The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell made an exemplary attempt to unleash a complex subject of philosophy to the simplest of minds. To make that happen, he starts with a table in his room and uses it as an analogy to explain 'what something appears to be' against 'what it is in real'.

Russell has trodden the path of lecturing philosophy with the simplest possible examples. He makes us question our judgment of reality by looking into how we can be forced to perceive objects around us in a specific way. The book encourages us to use our own judgment to form our 'reality', rather than allow others to shape it for us.

With over 70 books and 2000 articles published throughout his lifetime, Bertrand Russell was one of the most prolific intellectuals of the 20th century. Born in 1872 in Wales, in one of the most influential, aristocratic families in the United Kingdom, he was active mostly as a philosopher but also as a logician, historian, political activist and a social critic. Accredited as one of the founders of analytic philosophy, he head-started a British revolt against idealism. Bertrand Russell was a 1950 Nobel laureate in literature and his famous works: A History of Western Philosophy, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, and The Problems of Philosophy are regarded as the greatest works in philosophy, even five decades after his death in 1970.