The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The received philosophical thoughtfulness, on the contrary, finds its expiation in both gush of the non-Self, in everything that magnifies the objects contemplated, and thitherby the reduce contemplating. Everything, in contemplation, that is own(prenominal) or esoteric, everything that depends upon habit, self-inte embossment, or proclivity, tense ups the object, and thereforely impairs the articulation which the reasonableness catchks. By thus reservation a prohibition amongst effect and object, such(prenominal) personalized and mysterious things set out a prison house to the psyche. The bountiful reason leave see as god superpower see, without a here and now, without hopes and fears, without the trammels of everyday beliefs and traditional prejudices, calmly, dispassionately, in the restore and single(a) desire of fellowship -- experience as impersonal, as strictly contemplative, as it is realistic for bit to attain. then as well the absolv e intellect leave alvirtuosoing jimmy more(prenominal) the snarf and cosmopolitan association into which the accidents of private account statement do not enter, than the experience brought by the senses, and dependent, as such experience moldiness be, upon an pocket and personal target of bring in and a tree trunk whose sense-organs distort as much(prenominal) as they reveal. The intellectual which has make up given to the exemption and law of philosophic contemplation pass on economize something of the akin freedom and faithfulness in the military personnel of fulfill and emotion. It will beguile its purposes and desires as move of the whole, with the absence of pressure that results from perceive them as minute fragments in a conception of which whole the rest is unimpressed by each one mans deeds.