Rand And Russell's Analysis

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Rand and Russell believe that Philosophy is important for the development of everyone. They both have some differences to what philosophy means to society. Rand strongly believes that Philosophy is necessary for every person if they want to live, having negative results to our answers and ideas leads to people keeps exploring along with searching for the possible right answer to their question and philosophy already affects anyone even if they don’t want it. Although when it comes to Russell he considered that not every person needs philosophy in their life, having the incorrect answers to our questions ultimately keeps us interested and our minds open in searching for the true answer and holding your Dogma to your answers will cause more

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