 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
But it is also his duty to recognize such distortions as are inevitable from our very nature. Of these, the most fundamental is that we view the world from the point of view of the here and now, not with that large impartiality which theists attribute to the Deity. To achieve such impartiality is impossible for us, but we can travel a certain distance towards it. To show the road to this end is the supreme duty of the philosopher.
Source: Bertrand Russell: My Philosophical Development, 1959.
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That it is not the role of a philosopher to say something a little witty. Would many people be offended if I told them that those who teach philosophy at universities are "teachers (or researchers) of philosophy" but, for the most part, are not "philosophers"?
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