Research Of Russell's Pacifism

During the life time of nearly a century, Russell spent about 70 years on anti-war and peace movement. His peace movement and development of pacifism are accompanied by the pursuit of truth and belief, and also accompanied by his philosophical development process. Therefore, investigating Russell's pacifism in the course of his whole life thinking provides a basis to inspect for the real and not just from thinking "moral" level of understanding Russell and other similar western peace advocates and scholars. By means of combining history and logic together, inquiring the forming and developing of the reason and process of Russell's pacifism, the ethical bottom line-humankind's subsisting-will be found. The western view of liberty and democracy has to be yield to men's subsisting. By analyzing the chief conception of Russell's philosophy and expanding it to moral and politic, the reason of the contradiction between Russell's ideals and actualities and his pessimistic anticipation of human destiny will be detected. Modern peace studies' comparing the war and peace of the world to the sickness and health of body and the declaration of peaceful way to peace are largely originated from Russell and other pacifists. Consequently, Russell's own prejudice and short points cannot change the fact that he is a pacifist.