...situation as follows:1 In its widest possible sense, however, a man's self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic...reputation and works, his lands, and horses, and yacht, and bank account Its own body, then, first of all, its friends next, and finally its spiritual dispositions,...

...nothing to do with it at all. In its widest possible sense, however, a man's self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic...friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, his yacht and bank-account." 2 And then follows the principle, as near as James in explicit statement...

...ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his land and horses, and his yachts and bank account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they...triumphant ; if they dwindle and die away, he feels downcast." (Prmciples of Psychology.) And yet at times we revolt against the body as not ourselves,...

...connection with the self, for "in its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic...reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account."11 In other words the self lives on the physical, mental and social planes as well as...

...material me, the social me, and the spiritual me." "A man's me," he continues, "is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic...reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank account."1 Many of these aspects of the "me" play an important role in disease, and yet may be...

...sense," he says, " a man's self is the sum-total of all that he can call his, not only his body and psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his...friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, his yacht and bank account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he...

...still farther we arrive at William James's identification of the person with " the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic...his clothes and his house, his wife and children. ..." This is perfectly justifiable if we choose to interpret the term "self", as James himself says,...

...content of mind, or with William James that, in its widest sense, " a man's self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic...his wife and children, his ancestors and friends," etc., etc. Language of this sort I regard as woefully misleading. What Bosanquet designated " the world...

...emphasized, it may be said that "in its widest possible sense a man's self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic...powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and his children, his ancestors and his friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht...

...isn't as alarming as it first may seem. William James defined a man's self as "the sum total of all that he CAN call his, not only his body and his psychic...clothes and his house, his wife and children, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank-account."9 A biologist would go even...