ラッセルの名言
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哲学の価値哲学の価値は,実際上,主にまさにその不確実性のなかに求めるべきである。哲学の素養のない人は,常識や,時代や国籍による習慣的信念,あるいは慎重な理性の協力または同意なしに自分の心に育ってきた確信に由来する偏見にとらわれて生涯を過ごす。そのような人にとって,世界は明確で有限で疑問の余地がないほどに明らかなものになりがちである。ありふれた対象は問題を生じることなく,なじみのない可能性は軽蔑的に拒否される。(出典: ラッセル『哲学入門(哲学の諸問題』15章「哲学の価値」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. Source:The Problems of Philosophy, 1912, chap. 15. More Info.: https://russell-j.com/R601.HTM
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