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Author : Michael R. Slater
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521760164
A new interpretation of James's ethical and religious thought focusing on the prominent role these views played in his philosophy.
Author : Sarin Marchetti
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1349560022
Marchetti offers a revisionist account of James's contribution to moral thought in the light of his pragmatic conception of philosophical activity. He sketches a composite picture of a Jamesian approach to ethics revolving around the key notion and practice of a therapeutic critique of one's ordinary moral convictions and style of moral reasoning.
Author : Erin C. Tarver,Shannon Sullivan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271076942
Widely regarded as the father of American psychology, William James is by any measure a mammoth presence on the stage of pragmatist philosophy. But despite his indisputable influence on philosophical thinkers of all genders, men remain the movers and shakers in the Jamesian universe—while women exist primarily to support their endeavors and serve their needs. How could the philosophy of William James, a man devoted to Victorian ideals, be used to support feminism? Feminist Interpretations of William James lays out the elements of James’s philosophy that are particularly problematic for feminism, offers a novel feminist approach to James’s ethical philosophy, and takes up epistemic contestations in and with James’s pragmatism. The results are surprising. In short, James’s philosophy can prove useful for feminist efforts to challenge sexism and male privilege, in spite of James himself. In this latest installment of the Re-Reading the Canon series, contributors appeal to William James’s controversial texts not simply as an exercise in feminist critique but in the service of feminism. Along with the editors, the contributors are Jeremy Carrette, Lorraine Code, Megan Craig, Susan Dieleman, Jacob L. Goodson, Maurice Hamington, Erin McKenna, José Medina, and Charlene Haddock Seigfried.
Author : Jacob L. Goodson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780739190142
This edited volume demonstrates that a virtue-centered approach to the ethical life is a consistent feature of William James’s moral reasoning from the 1880s until his death in 1910. Little else, however, seems constant within James’s writings on moral philosophy and the ethical life, and this lack of constancy is what keeps James’s work of interest more than a century later.
Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004554841
Here, in a single volume, are selections from the writings of William James that cover the entire spectrum of his work as psychologist, moral philosopher, pragmatist, and metaphysician. These selections concentrate on the theme of James's moral philosophy. Although James was acknowledged as one of the dominant philosophers of his time, his total moral perspective is not easy to grasp. This is because he never developed a fully unified statement of his position. Rather, his illuminating reflections on moral issues were scattered unsystematically throughout his writings. This volume focuses attention on writings that are at the heart of James's ethical perspective. -- Book jacket.
Author : Todd Lekan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1003273521
"This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James' moral philosophy: an "ethics of responsible self-fashioning." James' performative writing style articulates this conception by showing how moral inquiry serves both social and personal transformation. James the social moral philosopher seeks to create an inclusive moral order through expansion of sympathetic concern among those committed to different ideals. James the existential moral philosopher defends the right to adopt hope-grounding metaphysical beliefs which encourage strenuous moral action in the face of evil and suffering. The power of James' ethics is demonstrated by its application to current discussions about the status of marginalized nonhuman animals and that of the cognitively disabled. William James and the Moral Life is of interest to a wide variety of ethicists and has special appeal to scholars and advanced students in moral philosophy, social philosophy, pragmatism, and American philosophy"--
Author : Sergio Franzese
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110327830
William James's moral philosophy is neither a remaking of utilitarianism nor it is a theory of values as it is assumed by the majority of his interpreters. Instead James offers an ethical view consistently arising out of valorization of energy of his days, and effecting a counter-tendency to the two great popular scientific currents of the 19th century: the universalizing of Darwinism and the pessimistic ideologies of social entropy. James's ethics moves away from the traditional idealistic or utilitarian grounds and takes place against the background of an up-and-coming philosophical anthropology hinged on the primacy of action. Human activity, however, needs to be understood in relation to Energy as the fabric of the universe pervading the whole spectrum of being in a continuum in which humanity and divinty are strictly intertwined.
Author : Frederick R. Bauer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781440169311
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.
Author : Bernard P. Brennan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Ethics
ISBN : UOM:39015008955828
Author : William James
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674267354
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 : Ruth Anna Putnam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521459060
The most convenient and accessible guide to James currently available.
Author : Alexander Mugar Klein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199395699
"This Handbook provides a structured overview of William James's intellectual work. James was a pioneer of the "new" physiological psychology of the late nineteenth century. He was also a founder of the pragmatist movement in philosophy and made influential contributions to metaphysics and to the study of religion as well. This Handbook's chapters are organized either around major themes in James's writing or around his conversations with interlocutors"--
Author : Richard P. Mullin
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791480014
Introduces the spiritual ideas of three major American philosophers.
Author : Michael R. Slater
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139480123
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 : Sarin Marchetti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137541789
Marchetti offers a revisionist account of James's contribution to moral thought in the light of his pragmatic conception of philosophical activity. He sketches a composite picture of a Jamesian approach to ethics revolving around the key notion and practice of a therapeutic critique of one's ordinary moral convictions and style of moral reasoning.