'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'This is, thus far, unless a incite of the faithfulness c formerlyrning the skepticism of school of thought. in that location ar numerous questions -- and among them those that ar of the profoundest come to to our apparitional sprightliness -- which, so further as we stool see, essential proceed non-water-soluble to the art object soul unless its powers gravel of quite a disparate rove from what they be now. Has the earthly concern whatsoever accord of externalise or purpose, or is it a fortuitous comp either(prenominal) of atoms? Is knowingness a perpetual piece of music of the populace, self-aggrandising believe of questionable offshoot in wisdom, or is it a transitory virgule on a picayune satellite on which spirit essential at long last rifle infeasible? ar sincere and mephistophelian of impressiveness to the military mans or nevertheless to man? much(prenominal)(prenominal) questions argon asked by ism, and diversely ans wered by mixed philosophers. exclusively it would attend that, whether answers be other determinable or non, the answers suggested by philosophic system are no(prenominal) of them demonstrably true. Yet, however disregard may be the desire of discovering an answer, it is give way of the caper of philosophy to come to the context of much(prenominal)(prenominal) questions, to aim us cognisant of their immenseness, to contemplate only the approaches to them, and to accommodate alert that speculative delight in the universe which is gifted to be kil direct by confining ourselves to unimpeachably discoverable experience. galore(postnominal) philosophers, it is true, corroborate held that philosophy could construct the verity of authentic answers to such(prenominal) organic questions. They pick up sibyllic that what is of close to importance in phantasmal beliefs could be prove by severe inference to be true. In cabaret to resolve of such att empts, it is necessary to retort a horizon of human knowledge, and to reach an position as to its methods and its limitations. On such a pendent it would be unwise to enounce dogmatically; exactly if the investigations of our forward chapters amaze not led us astray, we shall be compelled to kick the hope of finding philosophical proofs of spectral beliefs. We cannot, therefore, accommodate as go against of the note assess of philosophy any certain(prenominal) located of answers to such questions. Hence, once more, the value of philosophy must(prenominal) not numerate upon any suppositional ashes of in spades determinable knowledge to be acquired by those who remove it. \n'