Thinking Clearly

Bertrand Russell brings up the simple point that people need to start thinking clearly instead of allowing emotions and other personal feelings to get in the way. While this may seem like an obvious observation that everyone should already know, the amount of people who do not practice clear thinking is staggering. It is of a human nature to think the way that one wants to, instead of thinking in a way that allows one to see all sides of an issue. The world is full of individuals with biased thinking, which, like Russell says, is not good for mankind. Like how courts should follow the philosophy of blind justice, people should follow the philosophy of unbiased thinking and not allow prejudice to affect their decisions.

I didn't quite get the last bit of what Russell was saying. I think he's saying something along the lines of how old-fashioned philosophy does not fit in with how the world works today. The way I see it, the world today has a huge population of people and not all of them have access to teachers who can teach them clear thinking. For the rest of the people, many of them do not have the urge to think outside the little bubble that society has created for them. In that sense, old philosophy would probably have an impact on only a small percentage of today's world population.