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Author : Michael R. Slater
Release : 2009-09-10
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis William James on Ethics and Faith by : Michael R. Slater
Download or read book William James on Ethics and Faith written by Michael R. Slater. This book was released on 2009-09-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of James's ethical and religious thought focusing on the prominent role these views played in his philosophy.
Author : Michael R. Slater
Release : 2014-08-07
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis William James on Ethics and Faith by : Michael R. Slater
Download or read book William James on Ethics and Faith written by Michael R. Slater. This book was released on 2014-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a new interpretation of William James's ethical and religious thought. Michael Slater shows that James's conception of morality, or what it means to lead a moral and flourishing life, is intimately tied to his conception of religious faith, and argues that James's views on these matters are worthy of our consideration. He offers a reassessment of James's 'will to believe' or 'right to believe' doctrine, his moral theory, and his neglected moral arguments for religious faith. And he argues that James's pragmatic account of religion is based on an ethical view of the function of religion and a realist view of the objects of religious belief and experience, and is compatible with his larger conception of pragmatism. The book will appeal to readers interested in the history of modern philosophy, especially pragmatism, as well as those interested in moral philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas.
Author : William James
Release : 1982
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Essays in Religion and Morality by : William James
Download or read book Essays in Religion and Morality written by William James. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in Religion and Morality brings together a dozen papers of varying length to these two themes so crucial to the life and thought of William James. Reflections on the two subjects permeate, first, James's presentation of his father's Literary Remains; second, his writings on human immortality and the relation between reason and faith; third, his two memorial pieces, one on Robert Gould Shaw and the other on Emerson; fourth, his consideration of the energies and powers of human life; and last, his writings on the possibilities of peace, especially as found in his famous essay "The Moral Equivalent of War." These speeches and essays were written over a period of twenty-four years. The fact that James did not collect and publish them himself in a single volume does not reflect on their intrinsic worth or on their importance in James's philosophical work, since they include some of the best known and most influential of his writings. All the essays, throughout their varied subject matter, are consistently and characteristically Jamesian in the freshness of their attack on the problems and failings of humankind and in their steady faith in human powers.
Author : William James
Release : 1896
Genre : Belief and doubt
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Book Synopsis The Will to Believe by : William James
Download or read book The Will to Believe written by William James. This book was released on 1896. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick R. Bauer
Release : 2009-09
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis William James on Morality by : Frederick R. Bauer
Download or read book William James on Morality written by Frederick R. Bauer. This book was released on 2009-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James yearned to weave science and religion into a popular philosophy useful for the everyday life of everyday people of faith. He saw that many were defenseless in an increasingly agnostic, even atheistic culture. "Thousands of innocent magazine readers lie paralyzed and terrified in the network of shallow negations which the leaders of opinion have thrown over their souls," he wrote in 1882. To which he added, "If I, . . . like the mouse in the fable, have gnawed a few of the strings of the sophistical net that has been binding down [the human heart's] lion strength, I shall be more than rewarded for my pains." Were he to return, he would still be unhappy with the leaders of opinion but also with the responses of those who seek refuge in fundamentalist reliance on religious scriptures or who claim that religion is independent of modern 'scientific' discoveries. Building on William James on Common Sense and William James on the Stream of Consciousness, this third and final volume will show how James in 2009 might weave ancient truths and modern discoveries into a philosophy that would even more completely reward him for his pains.
