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innashpitzberg1 августа 2012 г.Читать далееPhilosophy 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; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes the highest good.
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kakadu15 октября 2011 г.whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.
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Philosophy cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world.
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Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.
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There can never be any reason for rejecting one instinctive belief except that it clashes with others; thus, if they are found to harmonize, the whole system becomes worthy of acceptance.
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The argument that has led us to this conclusion is doubtless less strong that we could wish, but it is typical of many philosophical arguments, and it is therefore worth while to consider briefly its general character and validity. All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and it these are rejected, nothing is left.
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if we cannot be sure of the independent existence of objects, we shall be left alone in a desert - it may be that the whole outer world is nothing but a dream, and that we alone exist. This is an uncomfortable possibility; but although it cannot be strictly proved to be false, there is not a slightest reason that it is true.
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