PHIL 1103 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Deductive Reasoning, Logical Form, Cosmological Argument
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Once definitive answers are achieved we"re no longer doing philosophy. The questions that form the core of philosophical inquiry are those that seem not to admit of definitive answers. So philosophy"s achievements may seem slim on a definitive-truth measure because. The nature of the questions it confronts. Philosophy also serves to make us more humble by exposing our ignorance. People tend to presume that they know quite a lot about the world. Socrates was renowned as the wisest man but he famously claimed all that i know is that i know nothing . Russell warns against dogmatism (what is that?) [t]he value of philosophy must not depend upon any supposed body of definitively ascertainable knowledge to be acquired by those who study it. So we know that, for russell, philosophy primarily benefits the person who studies it and that this benefit isn"t one of definitive truths.
