{"id":10192,"date":"2018-01-18T08:19:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T08:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=10192"},"modified":"2018-03-07T10:39:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T10:39:10","slug":"2018-02-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-02-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Degrees of Bertrand Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Prof. Peter Stone<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>February 18, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was one of the most influential public intellectuals of the 20th century. A leading philosopher, humanist, atheist, and peace activist, he has receded from the public eye since his death almost fifty years ago. Peter Stone, who teaches political science at Trinity College Dublin, will argue that Russell is more relevant than ever today. He will illustrate Russell\u2019s importance by discussing Russell\u2019s many connections to other leading people of his day\u2014philosophers, politicians, artists, and others\u2014and what we can learn from them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Peter-Stone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Peter-Stone-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Peter-Stone-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Peter-Stone-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Peter-Stone-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Peter-Stone-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Peter-Stone-1200x675.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/258459618\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/258459618\">Six Degrees of Bertrand Russell &#8211; Prof. Peter Stone<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/246927449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Peter Stone February 18, 2018 Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was one of the most influential public intellectuals of the 20th century. A leading philosopher, humanist, atheist, and peace activist, he has receded from the public eye since his death almost fifty years ago. Peter Stone, who teaches political science at Trinity College Dublin, will argue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-02-18\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Six Degrees of Bertrand Russell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10192"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10526,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10192\/revisions\/10526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}