The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. William James

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       William James

      The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664112453

       PREFACE.

       THE WILL TO BELIEVE 1

       IS LIFE WORTH LIVING 32

       THE SENTIMENT OF RATIONALITY 63

       REFLEX ACTION AND THEISM 111

       THE DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM 145

       THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER AND THE MORAL LIFE 184

       GREAT MEN AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT 216

       THE IMPORTANCE OF INDIVIDUALS 255

       ON SOME HEGELISMS 263

       WHAT PSYCHICAL RESEARCH HAS ACCOMPLISHED 299

       INDEX 329

       ESSAYS

       POPULAR PHILOSOPHY.

       IS LIFE WORTH LIVING?[ 1 ]

       THE SENTIMENT OF RATIONALITY.[ 1 ]

       I.

       REFLEX ACTION AND THEISM.[ 1 ]

       THE DILEMMA OF DETERMINISM.[ 1 ]

       THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER AND THE MORAL LIFE.[ 1 ]

       GREAT MEN AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT.[ 1 ]

       THE IMPORTANCE OF INDIVIDUALS.

       ON SOME HEGELISMS.[ 1 ]

       WHAT PSYCHICAL RESEARCH HAS ACCOMPLISHED.[ 1 ]

       INDEX.

       By the Same Author

       Table of Contents

      At most of our American Colleges there are Clubs formed by the students devoted to particular branches of learning; and these clubs have the laudable custom of inviting once or twice a year some maturer scholar to address them, the occasion often being made a public one. I have from time to time accepted such invitations, and afterwards had my discourse printed in one or other of the Reviews. It has seemed to me that these addresses might now be worthy of collection in a volume, as they shed explanatory light upon each other, and taken together express a tolerably definite philosophic attitude in a very untechnical way.

      This is pluralism, somewhat rhapsodically expressed. He who takes for his hypothesis the notion that it is the permanent form of the world is what I call a radical empiricist. For him the crudity of experience remains an eternal element thereof. There is no possible point of view from which the world can appear an absolutely single fact. Real possibilities, real indeterminations, real beginnings, real ends, real evil, real crises, catastrophes, and escapes, a real God, and a real moral life, just as common-sense conceives these things, may remain in empiricism as conceptions which that philosophy gives up the attempt either to 'overcome' or to reinterpret in monistic form.

      Many of my professionally trained confrères will smile at the irrationalism of this view, and at the artlessness of my essays in point of


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