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 which 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
travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of
wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect."
B. Russell, Los
problemas de la filosofía.
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