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Jun 12, 2023 · As we are transformed by the renewing of our minds (Romans 12:2), we engage the battle against pretense and arrogant philosophy in the world. Trusting Christ and rightly dividing the Word of God (2 Timothy 2:15), we take every thought captive, pull down the strongholds, and, by the grace of God, set the captives free.
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Sep 19, 2016 · The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.
The primary value of philosophy according to Russell is that it loosens the grip of uncritically held opinion and opens the mind to a liberating range of new possibilities to explore. The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. . .
It is in these effects, therefore, if anywhere, that the value of philosophy must be primarily sought. But further, if we are not to fail in our endeavour to determine the value of philosophy, we must first free our minds from the prejudices of what are wrongly called “practical” men.
Jan 15, 2021 · Apart from its utility in showing unsuspected possibilities, philosophy has a value—perhaps its chief value— through the greatness of the objects which it contemplates, and the freedom from narrow and personal aims resulting from this contemplation.
Arrogance implies that the arrogant person doesn't have good enough reasons to hold their views as strongly as they do (otherwise they'd merely be unpleasant, rather than arrogant). It's epistemically wrong to hold views without sufficient reason.
When we correct others, and even take time to confront and refute them, we can follow Socrates’ lead and reveal our own ignorance as well, in the hope that we are genuinely siding with humility against arrogance.
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