“ James is a moral relativist who believes that a group of similarly situated people can reason together and come up with an "objectively good" solution to a moral problem. I think James conflates the moral arena with the political arena. While it is possible that a majority opinion could create political harmony, political harmony does not necessarily equal the objective moral good. In Ibsen's play, An Enemy of the People, the man who wanted to reveal to outsiders that the town's water supply was tainted, was made out as an enemy of the rest of the citizens who chose to keep silent in order to preserve their economic interests. I am not sure what James would have to say about this, but it seems to me that he would have to identify this consensus as "objectively" good. ”