Transcription of William James - On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings
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William James - On a Certain Blindness in Human [27/01/2009 5:36:10 PM]On a Certain Blindness in Human BeingsWilliam JamesOUR judgments concerning the worth of things, big or little, depend on the feelings the things arouse in us. Where wejudge a thing to be precious in consequence of the idea we frame of it, this is only because the idea is itself associatedalready with a feeling. If we were radically feelingless, and if ideas were the only things our mind could entertain, weshould lose all our likes and dislikes at a stroke, and be unable to point to any one situation or experience in life morevaluable or significant than any the Blindness in Human Beings , of which this discourse will treat, is the Blindness with which we all are afflictedin regard to the feelings of creatures and people different from are practical Beings , each of us with limited functions and duties to perform.
On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings William James OUR judgments concerning the worth of things, big or little, depend on the feelings the things arouse in us.
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STRUCTURALISM: Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener, William James, William James William James, Academic Curriculum Maps, 100 Years of Pragmatism, James, William, Pragmatism: An Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking, Essays in Radical, Pragmatism, What is an Emotion, Emotions Howard M. Feinstein Journal