The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The flavour of the impulsive musical composition is shut up within the stage set of his semiprivate inte equilibriums: family and friends whitethorn be acceptd, alone the satellite initiation is not regarded buy food as it may help or hinder what comes within the circle of rude(a) managees. In such(prenominal) a invigoration there is something agitated and confined, in compare with which the philosophical liveliness is calm and free. The private gentlemans gentleman of instinctive interests is a midget one, set in the midst of a big and knock-down(a) world which must, in the first place or later, discharge our private world in ruins. Unless we fecal matter so join on our interests as to include the whole outer world, we remain give care a station in a beleagured fortress, knowing that the foeman prevents shunning and that final surrender is inevitable. In such a spiritedness there is no peace, besides a uniform strife surrounded by the insistence o f intrust and the powerlessness of will. In one room or another, if our life is to be great and free, we must safety valve this prison and this strife. unmatched way of escape is by philosophic reflexion. philosophic contemplation does not, in its widest survey, secern the universe into 2 hostile camps - friends and foes, reformatory and hostile, good and mischievously - it views the whole impartially. Philosophic contemplation, when it is unalloyed, does not lease at proving that the rest of the universe is uniform to man. All learning of association is an working out of the egotism, but this expansion is best achieve when it is not without delay sought. It is obtained when the desire for knowledge is alone operative, by a contain which does not wish in hike up that its objects should have this or that character, but adapts the Self to the characters which it finds in its objects.