LIFE'S IDEALS ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS IN BY WILLIAM JAMES NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1912 The Principles of Psychology. 2 vols. 8vo. $5.00 Edcl. Psychology: Briefer Course. 12mo. $1.60 Edcl. net. New The Varieties of Religious Experience. $3.20 net. New The Will to Belleve, and Other Essays in Popular Philoso- Is Life Worth Living? 18mo. 50 cents net. Philadelphia: Human Immortality: Two supposed Objections to the Doc- 1907. The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to Pragmatism. $1.25 net. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co. 1909. $1.50 net. New York: Longmans, Memories and Studies. $1.75 net. New York: Longmans, 1911. Some Problems in Philosophy. Longmans, Green, & Co. 1911. $1.25 net. New York: Essays in Radical Empiricism. $1.25 net. New York: Long- On Some of Life's Ideals. "On a Certain Blindness in Human The Literary Remains of Henry James. Edited, with an Talks to Teachers on Psychology: and to Students on Some COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1900 BY WILLIAM JAMES BEQUEST OF ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS Ο UR 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 entertain, we should lose all our likes and dislikes 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 blindness with which we all are afflicted in regard to the feelings of creatures and people different from ourselves. [3] །ཡ་ |