Volumes of The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

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olume 1: Cambridge Essays, 1888–99

Edited by Kenneth Blackwell, Andrew Brink, Nicholas Griffin, Richard A. Rempel and John G. Slater
London and New York: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1983.
Pages: xxxiv, 554.
ISBN: 978-0-04-920067-8

Abbreviations Introduction Acknowledgements Chronology PART I. ADOLESCENT WRITINGS 1 Greek Exercises [1888–89] Headnote to Essay Notebook (2–8) 2 How Far Does a Country’s Prosperity Depend on Natural Resources [1889] 3 Evolution as Affecting Modern Political Science [1889] 4 State-Socialism [1889] 5 The Advantages and Disadvantages of Party Government, and the Conditions Necessary for Its Success [1889] 6 “The Language of a Nation Is a Monument to Which Every Forcible Individual in the Course of Ages Has Contributed a Stone.” [1889] 7 Contentment; Its Good and Bad Points [1889] 8 Destruction Must Precede Construction [1889] PART II. LATER PERSONAL WRITINGS 9 “A Locked Diary” [1890–94] 10 Die Ehe [1893] 11 Self-Appreciation [1897] PART III. APOSTOLIC ESSAYS General Headnote 12 Can We Be Statesmen? [1893] 13 Lövborg or Hedda [1894] 14 Cleopatra or Maggie Tulliver [1894] 15 Is Ethics a Branch of Empirical Psychology? [1897] 16 Seems, Madam? Nay, It Is [1897] 17 Was the World Good before the Sixth Day? [1899] PART IV. GRADUATE ESSAYS IN EPISTEMOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY General Headnote to Parts IV and V 18 Paper on Epistemology I [1893] 19 Paper on Epistemology II [1893] 20 Paper on Bacon [1893] 21 Paper on History of Philosophy [1894] 22 Paper on Epistemology III [1894] 23 Paper on Descartes [1894] 24 A Critical Comparison of the Methods of Bacon, Hobbes and DesCartes [1894] 25 Paper on Bacon [1894] 26 Paper on DesCartes I [1894] 27 Paper on Descartes II [1894] 28 Paper on Hobbes [1894] 29 On the Distinction between the Psychological and Metaphysical Points of View [c.1894]

PART V. GRADUATE ESSAYS IN ETHICS 30 On Pleasure [1893] 31 On the Foundations of Ethics [1893] 32 The Relation of What Ought to Be to What Is, Has Been or Will Be [1893] 33 The Relation of Rule and End [1893] 34 On the Definition of Virtue [1893] 35 The Ethical Bearings of Psychogony [1894] 36 Ethical Axioms [1894] 37 The Free-Will Problem from an Idealist Standpoint [1895] 38 Note on Ethical Theory [c.1896] 39 Are All Desires Equally Moral? [c.1896] PART VI. FELLOWSHIP AND FIRST PROFESSIONAL PAPERS General Headnote 40 Review of Heymans, Die Gesetze und Elemente des wissen schaftlichen Denkens [1895] 41 Observations on Space and Geometry [1895] a Introduction b Alternative or Supplementary Introduction c Note. On the Meaning of Apriority as Applied to Space d Erhardt, Metaphysik, Kap. V, Pp. 226–258 42 The Logic of Geometry [1896] 43 Review of Lechalas, Étude sur l’espace et le temps [1896] 44 The À Priori in Geometry [1896] PART VII. POLITICAL ECONOMY General Headnote 45 Note on Economic Theory [c.1895] 46 German Social Democracy, as a Lesson in Political Tactics [1896] 47 The Uses of Luxury [1896] 48 Mechanical Morals and the Moral of Machinery [1896] 49 Review of Schmöle, Die Sozialdemokratische Gewerkschaften in Deutschland seit dem Erlasse des Sozialisten-Gesetzes [1897] APPENDICES I Outlines and Reports of Lectures II What Shall I Read? Author Index Annotation Textual Notes Textual Principles and Methods Guide to the Textual Notes Bibliographical Index General Index