Inner Struggle In William James's Analysis

William James suggests that as individuals we must “almost as if it were necessary to become worthless as a practical being, if one is to hope to attain to any breadth of insight into the impersonal world of worths as such, to have any perception of life’s meaning on a large objective scale.” I personally believe that this approach is not very feasible as people need to accept their humanity and not shy away from the things that in which make them disagreeable. Even more so, I do believe that as humans were are capable to all help each other with this problem even though it is more of an individual’s own inner struggle. This is because William James touches on the point that people have a strong influential hold on each other. An example being
when James describes love and what it does to people. I believe that if more people “loved” each other and saw eye to eye, people would be able to overcome such blindness. On the other hand, this type of issue is the making of the mind. Meaning, this struggle may only be overcome alone and without the help of others. However, every individual is different and may need to take different steps in order to evaluate themselves as a person. This blindness is not easily overcome and may never be overcome. This is because this sort of blindness does not ever go away, it will always be present even if it is suppressed. It takes a lot of willpower to only think kind thoughts and not think poorly upon others.