By William James
"The kinds of non secular Experience," "Pragmatism," "A Plurialistic Universe," "The which means of Truth," "Some difficulties of Philosophy," chosen essays together with addresses on Emerson, the Philippine query, the California earthquake, and the recognized "The ethical an identical of War." The final nice works from a seminal determine within the background of yank philosophy and psychology.
Read or Download William James : Writings 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience Pragmatism A Pluralistic Universe The Meaning of Truth Some Problems of Philosophy Essays PDF
Best anthologies books
Pro Tools for Film and Video (Pro Tools 8)
This step by step consultant for modifying sound to photo utilizing professional instruments begins by means of explaining the professional instruments platforms and covers all key audio themes, together with apparatus, sound, song, results, output and combining instruments, to offer clients the talents had to paintings on any undertaking from colossal price range characteristic movie to beginner DV video in mono, stereo or encompass sound.
Their conquest used to be measured now not in miles yet in levels of longitude. They smashed the gates of empires, overthrew kingdoms, diverted rivers, and depopulated complete nations. They have been the Mongols of Genghis Khan, fast and cruel but additionally imaginitive, daring, and crafty. Their story has seldom been instructed within the West, and not by way of an writer with the acumen of Harold Lamb.
Liberation: New Works on Freedom From Internationally Renowned Poets
An exploration of freedom by way of many of the world's so much celebrated poets, released for the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi campsThe yr 2015 marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi focus camps and the realization of the second one global battle. yet worldwide, oppressed and imprisoned everyone is nonetheless eager for freedom and asking, "What does it suggest to be unfastened?
- Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Bread Loaf Anthology)
- Carl G. Wagner
- The Persian Mystics: Jalalu'D-Din Rumi
- Majipoor Chronicles (Majipoor Cycle)
Additional info for William James : Writings 1902-1910 : The Varieties of Religious Experience Pragmatism A Pluralistic Universe The Meaning of Truth Some Problems of Philosophy Essays
Example text
If in effect the world be not a serious thing, it is the dogmatic people who will be the shallow ones, and the worldly fil // E|/T /MM3/D l / lib / / l d P 40 h l[27 02 2011 00 28 45] Page 41 minded whom the theologians now call frivolous will be those who are really wise. "In utrumque paratus, then. Be ready for anything—that perhaps is wisdom. Give ourselves up, according to the hour, to confidence, to skepticism, to optimism, to irony, and we may be sure that at certain moments at least we shall be with the truth.
The plain truth is that to interpret religion one must in the end look at the immediate content of the religious consciousness. The moment one does this, one sees how wholly disconnected it is in the main from the content of the sexual consciousness. Everything about the two things differs, objects, moods, faculties concerned, and acts impelled to. Any general assimilation is simply impossible: what we find most often is complete hostility and contrast. If now the defenders of the sex-theory say that this makes no difference to their thesis; that without the chemical contributions which the sex-organs make to the blood, the brain would not be nourished so as to carry on religious activities, this final proposition may be true or not true; but at any rate it has become profoundly uninstructive: we can deduce no consequences from it which help us to interpret religion's meaning or value.
It is either because we take an immediate delight in them; or else it is because we believe them to bring us good consequential fruits for life. When we speak disparagingly of 'feverish fancies,' surely the fever-process as such is not the ground of our disesteem—for aught we know to the contrary, 103° or 104° Fahrenheit might be a much more favorable temperature for truths to germinate and sprout in, than the more ordinary blood-heat of 97 or 98 degrees. It is either the disagreeableness itself of the fancies, or their inability to bear the criticisms of the convalescent hour.