““Is Life Worth Living?” The philosopher was in top ========== Rebirth of a Nation (Jackson Lears) - Highlight Loc. 947-48 | Added on Thursday, January 01, 1970, 06:49 AM question of how to escape the enveloping fear that life was essentially meaningless—how to get out of bed in the morning and get on with the business of living. This was the kind of courage that interested him. Its enemy was not cowardice but ennui. ========== Rebirth of a Nation (Jackson Lears) - Highlight Loc. 946-48 | Added on Thursday, January 01, 1970, 06:49 AM exercise. Everything, for James, boiled down to the question of how to escape the enveloping fear that life was essentially meaningless—how to get out of bed in the morning and get on with the business of living. This was the kind of courage that interested him. Its enemy was not cowardice but ennui. ========== Rebirth of a Nation (Jackson Lears) - Highlight Loc. 959-61 | Added on Thursday, January 01, 1970, 06:50 AM belief—was the bet with the biggest payoff. James characterized the stakes starkly: “If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight—as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and ”
