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