Chapter 6 - Making Connections: How does Bertrand Russell’s concept of self-denial in the following quotation reflect the assumptions that underlie Bill Gates’s and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge: “the whole antithesis between self and the rest of the world, which is implied in the doctrine of self-denial, disappears as soon as we have any genuine interest in persons or things outside ourselves”? (See Russell, para. 2.)