Herry James

The deep meaning of James's novel is thought-provoking and alarming. What makes a person's life so full of meaning? William James once said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and those of us who are apathetic to her beauty, whose opinion is the absolute truth? James said "there is no pure objective truth". Truth lies in the experiential process of activity. Truth is relative, conditional, artificial, but not to be kneaded. Where would we be if no one were willing to truly know us, and no one could see us in return? One should never be content with a life of hardship, poverty and despair. It is true that man can live and work like a bad labourer, and at the same time be the noblest creature of heaven. If there really is a person of extraordinary morality. So what makes him otherworldly? It can only be so -- that their souls toil and endure meekly for the ideals of their souls, and their companions are never so inspired. The ideals of other people's lives lurk in mysteries that we can never fully understand, but some of his manifestations often tell us when those ideals emerge. So what is ideal? Does the pursuit of ideals mean that life has meaning? I think James seems ideal is not a real thing, it's more like a process, a participation in the process of itself, as to achieve what may not be important, but at the same time, James is representative of pragmatism, he said "a man can not completely accept pragmatism, but he is still a pragmatist". It is true that the meaning of life cannot be separated from practicality, so I believe that the meaning of one's life depends to a great extent on whether one is striving towards a direction with practical results.