Why Men Fight (Why Men Fight: a method of abolishing the international duel) is a 1916 book by mathematician and philosopher
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, a ...
. Printed in 1917 in response to the devastations of
WWI in New York by
The Century Co
The Century Company was an American publishing company, founded in 1881.
History
It was originally a subsidiary of Charles Scribner's Sons, named Scribners and Company, but was bought by Roswell Smith and renamed by him after the Century Associa ...
.
The work was republished with the title ''Principles of Social Reconstruction''.
Contents
The book is composed of eight chapters.
* The Principles of Growth
* The State
* War as an Institution.
* Property
* Education
* Marriage and the population question
* Religion and Churches
* What we can do
References
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Books by Bertrand Russell
1917 non-fiction books
The Century Company books