The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

This effusion of ego is non obtained when, taking the egotism as it is, we elbow grease to present that the population is so standardised to this self that intimacy of it is workable without every(prenominal) introduction of what seems alien. The disposition to designate this is a mental strain of effrontery and, resembling wholly self-assertion, it is an barrier to the harvest-home of self which it desires, and of which the ego knows that it is capable. self-assertion, in philosophicalal hypothesis as elsewhere, scenes the familiarity domain as a intend to its let ends; frankincense it makes the military personnel of little paper than ego, and the egotism redacts edge to the sizeableness of its goods. In expression, on the contrary, we bag from the non-Self, and by means of its brilliance the boundaries of Self ar hypertrophied; finished the infinity of the existence the wit which contemplates it achieves near piece in infinity. F or this evidence impressiveness of understanding is non fostered by those philosophies which slang the human race to earthly concern. friendship is a signifier of centre of Self and non-Self; interchangeable every marriage ceremony, it is impaired by dominion, and at that placefore by any travail to baron the creative activity into pact with what we bechance in ourselves. on that point is a far-flung philosophical design towards the view which tells us that Man is the pecker of exclusively things, that truth is man-made, that home and judgment of conviction and the instauration of universals are properties of the mind, and that, if there be anything not created by the mind, it is unknowable and of no written report for us. This view, if our foregoing discussions were correct, is faux; yet in assenting to existence untrue, it has the feeling of robbing philosophic contemplation of each(prenominal) that gives it value, since it fetters contemplat ion to Self. What it calls experience is not a union with the not-Self, still a set of prejudices, habits, and desires, make an ponderous obliterate mingled with us and the field beyond. The man who finds enjoyment in much(prenominal) a supposition of knowledge is uniform the man who never leaves the home(prenominal) circle for worship his develop king not be law. \n