The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human ImmortalityCourier Corporation, 01/01/1956 - 402 páginas This volume contains the complete texts of two books by America's most important psychologist and philosopher. Easy to understand, yet brilliant and penetrating, the books were written specifically for laymen and they are still stimulating reading for readers concerned with important questions of belief in an age of science. In the essays, under the heading The Will to Believe, James discusses, first, the interrelationships of belief, will, and intellect, examining such questions as: How does man believe? How do intellectual considerations color belief? How much of a role do irrational elements play even in rigorously logical thought? Chance versus determinism, free will versus fate, pluralism versus monism are discussed in succeeding sections. James also covers psychical research, Hegelianism, and Spencer's philosophy. Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine, reprinted here from the corrected second edition, examines the questions of survival after death, and provides an unusual philosophical rebuttal to the theory that thought and personality necessarily die with the brain. |
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gruous with our powers 82 But these differ from man | 95 |
REFLEx ACTION AND THEISM III | 111 |
perceived and as conceived 118 God 120 The minds three | 129 |
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 |
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