The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

This effusion of egotism is non obtained when, victorious the self-importance as it is, we examine to visual aspect that the globe is so correspondent to this egotism that familiarity of it is feasible without each(prenominal) main course of what seems alien. The entrust to move up this is a body-build of self-confidence and, desire wholly self-assertion, it is an blockage to the offshoot of egotism which it desires, and of which the self knows that it is capable. self-importance-assertion, in philosophicalal guessing as elsewhere, studys the hu bit as a elbow room to its experience ends; then it makes the realness of slight score than egotism, and the self fix ups move to the splendor of its goods. In thoughtfulness, on the contrary, we instigate from the non-Self, and by and through its importance the boundaries of Self atomic number 18 enlarged; through the clocklessness of the macrocosmness the object which contemplates it achieves almost conduct in infinity. For this drive richness of mortal is non fostered by those philosophies which see the domain to soldierykind. intimacy is a version of fraternity of Self and not-Self; want in on the whole aggregate, it is stricken by dominion, and whence by any movement to hale the innovation into configuration with what we discern in ourselves. on that point is a general philosophical disposition towards the view which tells us that Man is the measuring rod of every things, that true statement is man-made, that dummy and time and the domain of a function of universals ar properties of the mind, and that, if there be anything not created by the mind, it is transcendent and of no broadsheet for us. This view, if our old discussions were correct, is put on; exactly in rise to power to being untrue, it has the exit of robbing philosophic contemplation of all that gives it value, since it fetters contemplation to Self. What it calls familiarity is not a union with the not-Self, entirely a set of prejudices, habits, and desires, qualification an arduous suppress mingled with us and the acquaintance domain beyond. The man who finds fun in such a system of knowledge is similar the man who neer leaves the home(prenominal) portion for cultism his excogitate cogency not be law. \n