"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."
The person who does not "seek wisdom" has a narrow understanding of the world believing all he has been told and all that he senses. In a way he is trapped because he does not question his existence but passively accepts everything as "truth." In fact he has been brianwashed to an extent in that he did not willfully want these ideas to be implanted into him he just did not know.
"To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected"
He is in fact not trully living at all everything is normal and MUST stay normal in his view.
-Bertrand Russel. "The Value of Philosophy"
www.skepdic.com/russell.html
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Philosophy means "love of wisdom"
The discussion of unanswerable questions.
Does God exist?
How do you know the difference between right and wrong?
Are are actions free or determined?
Some people say that philsophy is pointless.
what can you possibly gain from trying to figure out the impossible questions?
but i leave it at this:
1 Corinthians 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness" ;
1 Corinthians 1:20
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1 Corinthians 1:25
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
Philosophy attmempts to look at things
from a point of view "free from self"
but rather from the point of view of the whole universe.
"If the study of philosophy has any value at all for others than students of philosophy, it must be only indirectly, through its effects upon the lives of those who study it. It is in these effects, therefore, if anywhere, that the value of philosophy must be primarily sought."
The point is how the big picture can affect the individual and thus effect the great good of mankind.
but in the end its God
Think:
If you walk towards a wall at exactly one half the pace you did before when will you reach the wall?
Mathemeticians can now prove that 1+1=0.
think.
