[Detachment of man from life].

Abstract

As an instrument and a weapon in the struggle for existence man has at his disposal the intellect which enables him, by means of language, to make use of conceptional thinking. But if he uses the intellect in order to manage the interactions with his equals, he unaffectedly has to observe and to manipulate the behaviour of his fellow-men as well as his own psychic processes like functions of intricate technical apparatuses, disregarding or violating the incalculable 'endothymic' part (strivings and feelings) of human being. Innate dispositions of behaviour, urges, moods, and emotions, however, constitute real life. Suppression of vital powers by the laws of rationality makes civilized people suffer.