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On Some Of Life's Ideals
Author: William James

O N S O M, O F LIFES IDEALS ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS IN HUMAN BEINGS . . WHAT MAKES A LIFE SIGNIFICANT BY WILLIAM JAMES NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY JAMES The Principled p fsyehology. 2 vols. 8vo. 5.00 Edd. net. New York Henry Holt Co. 1890. Psychology Briefer course. 12mo. 1.60 Edd. net. New York EenryHolt Co. 1892. The Varieties of Religious ... more »Experience. 3.20 net. New York Longmans, Green, Co. 1902. The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. 12mo. 2.00. New York Longmans, Green, Co. 1897. Is Life Worth Living 18mo. 50 cents net. Philadelphia S. B. Weston, 1305 Arch Street. 1896. Human Immortality Two supposed Objections to the Doc trine. 16mo. 1.00. Boston Houghton, Miffliu Co. 1898. Pragmatism. 1.25 net. New York Longmans, Green, Co. 1907. The Meaning of Truth A Sequel to Pragmatism. 1.25 net. New York Longmans, Green, Co. 1909. A Pluralistic Universe. 1.50ni. New York Longmans. Green, Co. 1909. Memories and Studies. 1.75 net. New York Longmans, Green. Co. 1911. Some Problems in Philosophy. 1.25 net. New York Long mans, Green, Co. 1911. Essays in Radical Empiricism. 1.25 net. New York Long mans, Green, Co. 1912. On Some of Lifes Ideals. On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings and What Makes a Life Significant. Reprinted from Talks to Teachers. 16mo. 50 cents net. New York Henry Holt Co. 1912. Habit. Reprinted from The Principle of Ptychology. 10mo. 50 cents net. New York Henry Holt Co. 1914. On Vital Reserves. The Energies of Men, from Memories and Studies and The Gospel of Relaxation from Toilet to Teach tr. 16mo. 50 cents net. New York Henry Holt Co. 1916. tfefc Literary Remains of Henry James. Edited, with an intro duction, by WILLIAM JAMES. With Portrait. Crown 8vo. 00. Boston Houghton, Mifflin Co. 1885. 3 bt to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Lifes Ideals. The complete book, from which the two essays contained in the present volume are reprinted. 12mo. 1.50 Edd. n t. New York Henry Holt Co. 1899. COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1900 BY WILLIAM JAMES ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS IN HUMAN BEINGS ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS IN HUMAN BEINGS OUR judgments concerning the worth of things, big or little, depend on the feelings the things arouse in us. Where we judge a thing to be precious in consequence of the idea we frame of it, this is only because the idea is itself associated already with a feeling. If we were radically feelingless, and if ideas were the only things our mind could enter- tain, we should lose all our likes and dis likes at a stroke, and be unable to point to any one situation or experience in life more valuable or significant than any other Now the blindness in human beings, of which this discourse will treat, is the blind ness with which we all are afflicted in re gard to the feelings of creatures and people different from ourselves. 131 4 ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS We are practical beings, each of us with limited functions and duties to perform. Each is bound to feel intensely the impor tance of hi own duties and the significance of the situations that call these forth. But this feeling is in each of us a vital secret, for sympathy with which we vainly look to others. The others are too much absorbed in their own vital secrets to take an interest in ours. Hence the stupidity and injustice of our opinions, so far as they deal with the significance of alien lives. Hence the falsity of our judgments, so far as they presume to decide in an absolute way on the value of other persons conditions or ideals. Take our dogs and ourselves, connected as we are by a tie more intimate than most ties in this world and yet, outside of that tie of friendly fondness, how insensible, each of us, to all that makes life significant for the other we to the rapture of bones under hedges, or smells of trees and lamp posts, they to the delights of literature and IN HUMAN BEINGS 5 art...

ISBN-13: 9781406742169
ISBN-10: 1406742163
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 104
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