Re: WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE PHILOSOPHY ??


"Steve Marshall" <sdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"vafidion" <vincenzofatigati@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

I'm a new member. I'm italian and I like to talk about philosophy .
Want you explain me better about this group ? Well I think before start
any discussion we have first know what is philosophy . What you think
is that ?What is the purpose of the philosophy ?Well i'll send my
answer after !!!

Philosophy is a means of answering questions through reasoning. It may be
useful to answer questions science can't.

Steve M

Or:

"The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very
uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through
life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the
habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which
have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his
deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite,
finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar
possibilities are contemptuously rejected. As soon as we begin to
philosophize, on the contrary, we find... that even the most everyday
things lead to problems to which only very incomplete answers can be
given. Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the
true answer to the doubts it raises, is able to suggest many
possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the
tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as
to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what they
may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have
never traveled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive
our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar
aspect." Bertrand Russell


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