I’m studying for my Nursing class and need an explanation.
ertrand Russell’s “The Value of Philosophy”
1.Who are the ‘practical’ men?
2.“It is exclusively in the goods of the mind that the value of philosophy is to be found; and only those who are not indifferent to these goods can be persuaded that the study of philosophy is not a waste of time.” Explain
3.Philosophy aims at knowledge, but what does that mean in a philosophical context? 4.“Thus, to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent that real.” Explain 5.What is value of philosophy? Explain this quote as part of your answer.“Thus while diminishing our feeling of uncertainty 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 travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar respect.”
6.Philosophy’s chief value “is through the greatness of the objects it contemplates, and the freedom from the narrow and personal aims resulting from this contemplation.”
ExplainExtra Credit 7.“Philosophic contemplation , when it is unalloyed , does not aim at providing knowledge, does not aim at proving that the rest of the universe is akin to man” How does the self enlarge itself from theenlargement of the “not self”. 8.The statement that “Man is the measure of all things” seems untrue. Why? How does philosophy make us citizens of the universe?
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