ABSTRACT
Bertrand Russell said that philosophy is to be studied above all else, because, through the greatness of the universe that philosophy contemplates, the mind is also rendered great and becomes capable of that union with the universe that constitutes its highest good. This notion seems to have originated with Anaxagoras. So, the mind of man can be focused on kosmos, or on trivia, what Heidegger called “repetitious prattling on.” George added, “Do not forget the remarkable quote you gave me earlier from Robert Hutchins about corruption. In an imaginary diatribe from Nietzsche, the author tried to illustrate the relevance of Nietzsche to the study of Freud and Kohut by using a format in which Nietzsche spoke for himself. In Collingwood’s autobiography, metaphysics is defined as the science of absolute presuppositions. The numerous metaphysical systems over time influenced each other, and, when translated into communicable words, have gradually yielded to the application of critical techniques for coherence and logic.
