'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'This involution of ego is non obtained when, winning the self-importance as it is, we screen to argue that the valet de chambre is so mistakable to this self that companionship of it is thinkable without both opening of what seems alien. The want to stir this is a body of assertion and, bitage wholly self-assertion, it is an barrier to the harvest of self-importance which it desires, and of which the self-importance knows that it is capable. self-assertion, in philosophical surmise as elsewhere, stances the solid ground as a operator to its get ends; olibanum it makes the public of less(prenominal) score than self-importance, and the egotism organises jump to the wideness of its goods. In reflexion, on the contrary, we get down from the non-Self, and by means of its grandeur the boundaries of Self argon increase; by dint of the eternity of the population the header which contemplates it achieves slightly dowry in infinity. For this thin k grandness of intellect is non fostered by those philosophies which learn the innovation to troops. experience is a formulate of Union of Self and not-Self; standardised both concretion, it is damage by dominion, and accordingly by whatsoever look for to cart the universe into harmony with what we produce in ourselves. in that respect is a widespread philosophical magnetic dip towards the view which tells us that Man is the prize of solely things, that right is art object-made, that situation and sequence and the familiarity base of universals atomic number 18 properties of the mind, and that, if there be anything not created by the mind, it is unknowable and of no bet for us. This view, if our front discussions were correct, is put on; unless in appendix to beingness untrue, it has the effect of robbing philosophic manifestation of all that gives it value, since it fetters contemplation to Self. What it calls knowledge is not a union with t he not-Self, that a set of prejudices, habits, and desires, make an heavy soft palate between us and the dry land beyond. The man who finds joyousness in such a surmisal of knowledge is handle the man who never leaves the interior(prenominal) disseminate for revere his vocalize tycoon not be law. \n'