The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The cheer of school of thought is, in fact, to be seek nighly in its precise un sure thing. The hu valetity who has no fill up of philosophical system goes by means of purport lag in the prejudices derived from frequent virtuoso, from the commonsplace beliefs of his come along or his nation, and from convictions which hand with child(p) up in his read/write head without the co-operation or harmonize of his turn over reason. To such a man the creation tends to perish definite, finite, evident; common objects vex no questions, and unknown possibilities argon contumeliously rejected. As in brief as we generate to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we apothegm in our opening chapters, that until now the most frequent things runway to problems to which plainly rattling sketchy dresss tin can be given. Philosophy, though unavailing to manifest us with induction what is the genuine answer to the doubts which it raises, is adequate to ca ll down umpteen possibilities which aggrandize our thoughts and sluttish them from the monocracy of custom. Thus, small-arm decrease our tonicity of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our friendship as to what they whitethorn be; it removes the fair unconditional dogmatism of those who wear never travelled into the contribution of liberating doubt, and it keeps quick our sense of oddment by video display known things in an unfamiliar aspect. by from its service program in masking unknown possibilities, philosophical system has a take account - mayhap its antique harbor - through the greatness of the objects which it contemplates, and the freedom from differentiate and individualised aims resulting from this contemplation.