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The Philosophy of William James : an introduction /
This 2004 book is an accessible introduction to the full range of the philosophy of William James. It portrays that philosophy as containing a deep division between a Promethean type of pragmatism and a passive mysticism. The pragmatist James conceives of truth and meaning as a means to control natu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004, ©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Promethean Pragmatist:
- 1. The Ethics of prometheanism
- 2. The Willfulness of belief
- 3. The Freedom of belief
- 4. The Will to believe
- 5. The Ethics of truth
- 6. The Semantics of 'truth'
- 7. Ontological relativism: William James meets Poo-bah
- Part II. The Passive Mystic:
- 8. The Self
- 9. The I-thou quest for intimacy and religious mysticism
- 10. The Humpty dumpty intuition and backyard mysticism
- 11. An attempt at one world interpretation of James.