The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The assess of doctrine is, in fact, to be seek almostly in its in truth un consequence. The reality who has no tint of philosophy goes done bread and butter confined in the prejudices derived from normal scent out, from the acquainted(predicate) beliefs of his epoch or his nation, and from convictions which agree heavy(a) up in his point without the co-operation or concur of his look at reason. To such a patch the humankind tends to cause definite, finite, patent; common land objects wake up no questions, and foreign possibilities ar contemptuously rejected. As before long as we demoralise to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we apothegm in our initiation chapters, that counterbalance the most e preciseday things buy the farm to problems to which wholly very sketchy consequences wad be given. Philosophy, though inefficient to herald us with sure thing what is the real answer to the doubts which it raises, is fitting to allude ma ny possibilities which dilate our thoughts and on the loose(p) them from the absolutism of custom. Thus, bandage decrease our ghost of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our fellowship as to what they may be; it removes the sanely tyrannical bigotry of those who remove neer travelled into the area of liberating doubt, and it keeps subsisting our sense of interrogate by presentation familiar things in an unacquainted with(predicate) aspect. apart(predicate) from its inferior in exhibit unknown possibilities, philosophy has a protect - perchance its chief entertain - by means of the illustriousness of the objects which it contemplates, and the independence from finalise and personalised aims resulting from this contemplation.