William James On Religion

Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781877527463

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Pdf

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674012534

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Varieties of Religion Today by Charles Taylor Pdf

A hundred years after William James delivered the celebrated lectures that became The Varieties of Religious Experience, one of the foremost thinkers in the English-speaking world returns to the questions posed in James's masterpiece to clarify the circumstances and conditions of religion in our day. An elegant mix of the philosophy and sociology of religion, Charles Taylor's powerful book maintains a clear perspective on James's work in its historical and cultural contexts, while casting a new and revealing light upon the present. Lucid, readable, and dense with ideas that promise to transform current debates about religion and secularism, Varieties of Religion Today is much more than a revisiting of James's classic. Rather, it places James's analysis of religious experience and the dilemmas of doubt and belief in an unfamiliar but illuminating context, namely the social horizon in which questions of religion come to be presented to individuals in the first place. Taylor begins with questions about the way in which James conceives his subject, and shows how these questions arise out of different ways of understanding religion that confronted one another in James's time and continue to do so today. Evaluating James's treatment of the ethics of belief, he goes on to develop an innovative and provocative reading of the public and cultural conditions in which questions of belief or unbelief are perceived to be individual questions. What emerges is a remarkable and penetrating view of the relation between religion and social order and, ultimately, of what "religion" means.

Author : Wayne Proudfoot
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231506946

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William James and a Science of Religions by Wayne Proudfoot Pdf

The "science of religion" is an important element in the interpretation of William James's work and in the methodology of the study of religion. An authority on pragmatism and the philosophy of religion, Wayne Proudfoot and a stellar group of contributors from a variety of disciplines including religion, philosophy, psychology, and history, bring innovative perspectives to James's work. Each contributor focuses on a specific theme in The Varieties of Religious Experience and suggests how James's treatment of that theme can fruitfully be brought to bear, sometimes with revisions or extensions, on current debate about religious experience.

Author : James M. Edie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015013012540

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William James and Phenomenology by James M. Edie Pdf

Author : Michael R. Slater
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521760164

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William James on Ethics and Faith by Michael R. Slater Pdf

A new interpretation of James's ethical and religious thought focusing on the prominent role these views played in his philosophy.

Author : Jody Azzouni
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134593439

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Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science by Jody Azzouni Pdf

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science is a fascinating study of the bounds between science and language: in what sense, and of what, does science provide knowledge? Is science an instrument only distantly related to what's real? Can the language of science be used to adequately describe the truth? In this book, Jody Azziouni investigates the technology of science - the actual forging and exploiting of causal links, between ourselves and what we endeavor to know and understand.

Author : William James
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674267354

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Essays in Religion and Morality by William James Pdf

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 : H. Rydenfelt,S. Pihlström
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137317353

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William James on Religion by H. Rydenfelt,S. Pihlström Pdf

A team of international experts present a collection of articles on William James's philosophy of religion and its current relevance. A new look at his philosophy of religion is crucially important for the development of this field of inquiry today.

Author : William James
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547753865

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The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Pdf

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James. It comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on natural theology, which were delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1901 and 1902. The lectures concerned the nature of religion and the neglect of science in the academic study of religion.

Author : David C. Lamberth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1999-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139425407

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William James and the Metaphysics of Experience by David C. Lamberth Pdf

William James is frequently considered one of America's most important philosophers, as well as a foundational thinker for the study of religion. Despite his reputation as the founder of pragmatism, he is rarely considered a serious philosopher or religious thinker. In this new interpretation David Lamberth argues that James's major contribution was to develop a systematic metaphysics of experience integrally related to his developing pluralistic and social religious ideas. Lamberth systematically interprets James's radically empiricist world-view and argues for an early dating (1895) for his commitment to the metaphysics of radical empiricism. He offers a close reading of Varieties of Religious Experience; and concludes by connecting James's ideas about experience, pluralism and truth to current debates in philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and theology, suggesting James's functional, experiential metaphysics as a conceptual aid in bridging the social and interpretive with the immediate and concrete while avoiding naive realism.

Author : Paul Jerome Croce
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080784506X

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Science and Religion in the Era of William James: Eclipse of certainty, 1820-1880 by Paul Jerome Croce Pdf

In this cultural biography, Paul Croce investigates the contexts surrounding the early intellectual development of American philosopher William James (1842-1910). Croce places the young James at the center of key scientific and religious debates in Americ

Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : HARVARD:32044017068255

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The Will to Believe by William James Pdf

Author : Ninian Smart,John Clayton,Patrick Sherry,Steven T. Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 052135966X

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Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought in the West: Volume 3 by Ninian Smart,John Clayton,Patrick Sherry,Steven T. Katz Pdf

The successful three volumes of Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West provide a fresh appraisal of the most important thinkers of that time. Soames essays centre on major figures of the period; others cover topics, trends and schools of thought between the French Revolution and the First World War.

Author : Stephen S. Bush
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107135956

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William James on Democratic Individuality by Stephen S. Bush Pdf

A study of William James' philosophy of democracy and pluralism, and its relevance to modern debates.

Author : Richard Allan Beck
Publisher : Leafwood Publishers & Acu Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0891123504

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The Authenticity of Faith by Richard Allan Beck Pdf

A popular strategy among contemporary critics of religion is to explain religiosity as an evolutionary adaptation -- a behavior pattern that exists simply because it helped our early human ancestors thrive. An effective response to this type of argument requires the ability to integrate social scientific research, philosophical viewpoints, and theological beliefs. Using social scientific research, Beck identifies the flaws in Freud's dismissal of religion as a neurotic defense against mortal dread. Instead, Beck draws on the writings of William James to show the complexity of religious belief, which emphasizes the uniqueness of the individual believer. Written in a way that is accessible to readers who aren't trained in social scientific research, but rigorous in meeting the standards of the social sciences, The Authenticity of Faith is a masterful example of the "new apologetics." (Steven V. Rouse).