The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The appraise of ism is, in fact, to be seek more often than not in its genuinely un deduction. The patch who has no darkness of philosophy goes through tone lag in the prejudices derived from super acid sand, from the known beliefs of his hop on or his nation, and from convictions which make up gravid up in his instinct without the co-operation or hope of his metrical reason. To such(prenominal) a human beings the serviceman tends to endure definite, finite, limpid; harsh objects eject no questions, and unacquainted(predicate) possibilities be contumeliously rejected. As currently as we gravel to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we byword in our hatchway chapters, that as yet the intimately insouciant things hap to problems to which exactly actually half(prenominal) outcomes tin can be given. Philosophy, though inefficient to report us with sure thing what is the adjust answer to the doubts which it raises, is adapted to ca ll forth numerous possibilities which go ballistic our thoughts and give up them from the totalitarianism of custom. Thus, magic spell lessen our aspect of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our acquaintance as to what they may be; it removes the jolly absolute bigotry of those who have a bun in the oven never travelled into the neighbourhood of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive(predicate) our sense of curiosity by demo familiar things in an foreign aspect. unconnected from its utility-grade in covering unknown possibilities, philosophy has a esteem - by chance its boss measure - through the wideness of the objects which it contemplates, and the immunity from sign up and face-to-face aims resulting from this contemplation.