"The Value of Philosophy?" Question 5: Some students feel that philosophy is worthless because it does not yield definite results. How would Russell respond? Russell says the value of philosophy is in its uncertainty. What does he mean? Do you agree? Often times before I had attended college, I felt that philosophy was a useless study. I did not see the point of asking sometimes ridicules questions and arguing over them. You know the questions I …showed first 75 words of 739 total…

…showed last 75 words of 739 total…to me. The feeling that I get from that is as if my "self" has been enlarged. By reading, Russell helped me better to understand the attainment of knowledge. To conclude this essay I would have to say that Russell has opened my mind and set the tone on how to understand philosophy. Maybe later in my life I would be better able to understand the whole scope of what he was trying to explain.