ABSTRACT
The intrinsic goals which are hard to dispute: to eliminate war, to reduce hostility, to decrease diseases, to wipe out hunger, to remove inequality, to spread esthetic enjoyment, to maximize human happiness, to increase knowledge, to cultivate more affection. The knowledge of the union of mind and nature is knowledge of a very special character, different from what is ordinarily thought of as knowledge. Traditionally, there have been suggestions that philosophical knowledge, unlike ordinary knowledge, does promise a state of happiness which can be brought about by seeing Truth or by finding out the proper way to live. In a popular article, Russell was reported as saying that he got more fame than many of his more clever contemporaries at Cambridge by rushing into controversies. The basic conflict is between the requirements of rigor and comprehensiveness. More specifically, there is a schism between nature and the human life as two aspects of the subject matter of philosophy.
