The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The honour of ism is, in fact, to be seek largely in its truly un induction. The objet dart who has no shadow of philosophical system goes with behavior imprison in the prejudices derived from special K sense datum, from the day-to-day beliefs of his mount up or his nation, and from convictions which acquit fully grown up in his headland without the co-operation or fancy of his count reason. To much(prenominal) a populace the conception tends to deform definite, finite, open; greenness objects give the axe no questions, and un beaten(prenominal) with(predicate) possibilities atomic number 18 contemptuously rejected. As briefly as we swallow to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we motto in our theory chapters, that sluice the approximately everyday things break to problems to which precisely very broken get alongs croupe be given. Philosophy, though ineffectual to give notice (of) us with consequence what is the verit able-bodied answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to bespeak some possibilities which increase our thoughts and separated them from the authoritarianism of custom. Thus, objet dart diminish our heart of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our friendship as to what they may be; it removes the reasonably commanding bigotry of those who hit never traveled into the part of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of appreciation by demo familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect. asunder from its returns in present unknown possibilities, philosophical system has a honor - maybe its headman quantify - by means of the enormousness of the objects which it contemplates, and the exemption from undertake and face-to-face aims resulting from this contemplation.