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This is a very good read to get in the mind of Bertrand Russell. He gets fairly heady midway through, but sums up his findings in the last chapter pretty well in The Value of Philosophy. He was a pragmatist. "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 conceptions of what is possible, enrich our intelle
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When I first came across this book I thought that Russell was going to discuss what he saw as the problems of philosophy in the sense that he was going to be critical of some aspects of philosophy. Instead, it turns out that what is meant by the word "problems" is "areas of study." In that sense, it may be better to call this "An Overview of Areas of Study in Philosophy" written in the style of the "A Very Short Introduction" series.
For the book itself, Russell takes what can be a dry encycloped ...more
For the book itself, Russell takes what can be a dry encycloped ...more
