“Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation.”
— Bertrand Russell
Why It's Lindy
Still the best first book for anyone approaching philosophy seriously. Russell's gift for clarity made a subject often deliberately obscure suddenly feel both accessible and urgent. Written in 1912 and still in print.
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Russell's concise introduction to the central problems of epistemology and metaphysics. The clearest gateway to serious philosophy ever written.
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Still the best first book for anyone approaching philosophy seriously. Russell's gift for clarity made a subject often deliberately obscure suddenly feel both accessible and urgent. Written in 1912 and still in print.
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Russell's concise introduction to the central problems of epistemology and metaphysics. The clearest gateway to serious philosophy ever written.
