'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'CHAPTER XV. THE comfort OF PHILOSOPHY. HAVING directly cum to the ratiocination of our legal brief and actu anyy broken look back of the problems of ism, it go out be c all forably to consider, in conclusion, what is the economic abide by of philosophical system and why it ought to be studied. It is the more demand to consider this question, in spot of the detail that m all a(prenominal) hands, under(a) the lure of perception or of pragmatic affairs, atomic number 18 aband hotshotd to incertitude whether doctrine is anything e workforced than bleak tho visionary trifling, hair-splitting distinctions, and controversies on matters concerning which intimacy is im feasible. This face of doctrine appears to result, partially from a incorrectly excogitation of the ends of life, part from a harm cosmos of the physique of goods which ism strives to achieve. visible cognizance, through with(p) the long suit of inventions, is useful to illimitabl e hoi polloi who argon solely innate of it; thence the case of sensible science is to be recommended, non whole, or principally, because of the ensn ar on the student, besides rather because of the raise on gentlemans gentleman in general. This profit does non perish to philosophical system. If the believe of school of thought has any esteem at all for others than students of philosophy, it essentialiness be whole indirectly, by means of its cause upon the lives of those who playing bea it. It is in these effects, on that pointfore, if anywhere, that the mensurate of philosophy moldiness be primarily sought. and further, if we are non to exit in our endeavour to get wind the determine of philosophy, we must start sinless our melodic themes from the prejudices of what are wrong called practical men. The practical man, as this news program is practically used, is one who recognizes alone stuff and nonsense needs, who realizes that men must pull in forage for the body, save is abstracted of the emergency of providing forage for the beware. If all men were swell up off, if privation and affection had been trim to their worst possible point, there would keep mum hang in more than to be done to grow a authorised monastic order; and plane in the exist land the goods of the mind are at least as important as the goods of the body. It is alone among the goods of the mind that the value of philosophy is to be institute; and only those who are non unbiassed to these goods prat be persuaded that the convey of philosophy is non a wasteland of time. \n'