What Makes a Life Significant
What Makes a Life Significant
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“We are suffering today in America from what is called the labor-question; and, when you go out into the world, you will each and all of you be caught up in its perplexities. I use the brief term labor-question to cover all sorts of anarchistic discontents and socialistic projects, and the conservative resistances which they provoke. So far as this conflict is unhealthy and regrettable,—and I think it is so only to a limited extent,—the unhealthiness consists solely in the fact that one-half of our fellow-countrymen remain entirely blind to the internal significance of the lives of the other half. They miss the joys and sorrows, they fail to feel the moral virtue, and they do not guess the presence of the intellectual ideals. They are at cross-purposes all along the line, regarding each other as they might regard a set of dangerously gesticulating automata, or, if they seek to get at the inner motivation, making the most horrible mistakes. Often all that the poor man can think of in the rich man is a cowardly greediness for safety, luxury, and effeminacy, and a boundless affectation. What he is, is not a human being, but a pocket-book, a bank-account. And a similar greediness, turned by disappointment into envy, is all that many rich men can see in the state of mind of the dissatisfied poor. And, if the rich man begins to do the sentimental act over the poor man, what senseless blunders does he make, pitying him for just those very duties and those very immunities which, rightly taken, are the condition of his most abiding and characteristic joys! Each, in short, ignores the fact that happiness and unhappiness and significance are a vital mystery; each pins them absolutely on some ridiculous feature of the external situation; and everybody remains outside of everybody else's sight.”

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William James

1842, New York

Filosofo e psicologo statunitense (1842-1910), fratello del romanziere Henry. Dopo aver studiato negli USA e in Europa, iniziò la carriera accademica come "instructor in physiology" alla Harvard University, dove fondò il primo laboratorio statunitense di psicologia sperimentale. James pose le basi del funzionalismo e fu uno dei principali assertori del pragmatismo. Tra le sue opere: The principles of psychology (1890), Psychology: briefer course (1892), The will to believe (1897), Talks to teachers on psychology and to students on some of life's ideals (1899), The varieties of religious experience (1902), Pragmatism (1907), The meaning of truth (1909), A pluralistic universe (1909), Some problems of philosophy (1911), Essays in radical empiricism (1912).

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