• Dr. PR Chandra Reddy

Abstract: Bertrand Russell's penetrating endeavour of emancipating modern mankind from the cruel worship in the past and disgusting worshipping of the delusive supernatural power, let it be called God. As mankind drew close to the twentieth century, we find an atmosphere that is called for freedom of mind and spirit, freedom from worship, freedom from ineffectual fear and freedom of thought. The hold of religion seemed to be losing its ground as man begins questioning, but it’s different in the Islamic world. Even the morality derived from religion seemed to be withdrawing into the background. The accomplishments of modern science that confirmed the validity of the methods of free inquiry and verification through experience and experiments brought sea changes into the human world. They provided the needed freedom of intellection and action, undreamt of when religion reigned supreme across the world, especially during the dark ages. Russell illuminates a view that mankind wrongly worships God for private greed and happiness. He asserts human’s wrongly placed worship because of the result of their savage ancestors witnessing the oppression of the powerlessness before the powers of nature. The rulers and the priests created the notion of an unseen, powerful force that could guide them to a life without suffering and so they started to worship and made their subjects worship the invisible power. The ancient worship had its cruel faces like human sacrifices in an attempt to appease the jealous and angry Gods. Russell underlines that the creation of man is a sheer accidental product of atoms and there is neither a purpose nor meaning behind it. Russell maintains that man is inferior, indeed, to the forces of nature, but he can resist their adverse effect to the maximum extent as man alone has a superior mind which allows evaluation of what is right and what is wrong. In this way, a free man is one who can break away from the domination of nonhuman power. He also claims that freedom only comes to those who reduce personal good and contribute something to the common good, truth and beauty.

"TRUTH, BEAUTY AND GOODNESS LEND SIGNIFICANCE TO LIFE: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF BERTRAND RUSSEL’S ‘A FREEMAN’S WORSHIP’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no.o1-o9, May-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305F01.pdf

"TRUTH, BEAUTY AND GOODNESS LEND SIGNIFICANCE TO LIFE: A PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS OF BERTRAND RUSSEL’S ‘A FREEMAN’S WORSHIP’", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 5, page no. ppo1-o9, May-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2305F01.pdf