Bertrand Russell the visionary: Sixty years ahead of time

Abstract

Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl Russell was one of the founders of Analytical philosophy of Europe. He was born in the year 1872 and lived for 98 years as he died in the year 1970. Albeit of Russell’s primary identity with Analytical movement he is also known as an academician, political activist, educationist, social reformer, free-thinker and a pacifist. He wrote for the first time at his age of 18 and since then he continued expression of his views on diverse domains of knowledge for the next almost 80 years. He became one of the most inspiring philosophers of the twentieth century. Russell wrote on various subject domains including philosophy, religion, politics and mathematics. Dewey decimal classification (DDC), developed by Melvil Dewey, is a knowledge organization tool that provides a system for organize knowledge represented in any form. This paper analyses the knowledge domains of Bertrand Russell and the impact of Bertrand Russell’s philosophy to the universe of knowledge. The results of the analysis of the domains of Russell’s intellect revealed that he was at least sixty years ahead of his time.