great paragraphs from what you're reading

[Singu]

Who could desire freewill? Who would not say, with Huxley, "let me be wound up every day like a watch, to go iight fatally, and I ask no better freedom. "Freedom' in a world already perfect could only mean freedom to be worse, and who could be so insane as to wish that?

-William James, Pragmatism

Problem: we don't actually live in a perfect world, we live in an imperfect world. So it could only get better from there, if we desired.

[Tearsofaclown]

Problem: we don't actually live in a perfect world, we live in an imperfect world. So it could only get better from there, if we desired.

I agree. He was arguing against people like Leibniz who said that we live in the best possible world. He called Leibniz "superficiality incarnate". lol. The harshest comment I have ever seen James make.