I was not stunned by Russell's essay, but I did appreciate it. Meg, I know this will sound wimpy because you're a philosophy all-star, but I've taken my Gen. Ed. Philosophy course this semester and I absolutely love it. Prior to this class, I appreciate those who cared about philosophy, but didn't really see the value. I don't know what it was--maybe Ken Schenck is just a great professor--but the study of philosophy is now intriguing to me. I think that, at best, philosophy is an optimistic realization that we can know very few things for sure--but that we should seek to discover truth.
Russell commended this search for knowledge in his essay. Philosophy, he claims, is about knowledge and its search. Philosophy is more about questions than answers, and while that may seem disconcerting sometimes, I think that it is what our minds are made to do: question.
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