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1. Bertrand Russell

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   Early Life and Education
   Russell was born into the English aristocracy in Trelleck, Wales, as the third Earl Russell. He studied mathematics and philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he demonstrated exceptional aptitude in both disciplines. His early intellectual formation was marked by exposure to Kant's critical philosophy, which he later claimed cured him of his childhood belief that he was descended from the number 2.
   Mathematical Logic and Principia Mathematica

2. Desire (ethics)

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   Desire and Autonomous Will
   Immanuel Kant fundamentally re-evaluated desire by subordinating it to rational autonomy. For Kant, inclinations (sensible desires) belong to the phenomenal realm and cannot serve as a basis for universal moral law, which must be derived from pure practical reason. Desire, in this view, i…