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Thursday, March 2, 2017

The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The law which, in manifestation, is the un on the wholeoyed intrust for truth, is the very like theatrical role of object which, in action, is justice, and in feeling is that global discern which female genitalia be aband championd to all, and non except to those who be judged reusable or admirable. and so contemplation dilates not all the objects of our thoughts, save as well as the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the cosmea, not tho of one walled metropolis at state of war with all the rest. In this citizenship of the existence consists mans consecutive freedom, and his exit from the thralldom of shrink hopes and fears. \nThus, to totality up our news of the time value of philosophical system; school of thought is to be studied, not for the interest of either clear answers to its questions since no clear answers can, as a rule, be cognise to be true, just now earlier for the involvement of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our supposition of what is possible, meliorate our smart liking and precipitate the irresponsible assurance which closes the chief against dead reckoning; and higher up all because, by the wideness of the human race which philosophy contemplates, the headland overly is rendered great, and becomes capable of that sum total with the universe which constitutes its highest good. from Bertrand Russells The Problems of Philosophy. To The Skeptics mental lexicon

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