After William James’s students “got well imbued with the logical spirit” (William James 130) they began to question his belief in God because it could not be proven through logic and he had no evidence to back up his claim. This inspired him to write his essay “The Will to Believe” in which he attempts to explore and refute Pascal’s logical reason to believe in God‚ and William Cliffords argument that any claim made without strong evidence to back it is a morally wrong claim‚ despite what the truth
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From the beginning of his book James has written that any experience the individual has needs to be processed‚ labeled and categorized by the individual. Even though the individual gets their labels and categories from society and their background‚ the experiences they have shape and possibly change those labels. James writes that if an individual has a mystical experience only that individual understands it: “The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of
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XI. ATTENTION Whoever treats of interest inevitably treats of attention‚ for to say that an object is interesting is only another way of saying that it excites attention. But in addition to the attention which any object already interesting or just becoming interesting claims—passive attention or spontaneous attention‚ we may call it—there is a more deliberate attention‚—voluntary attention or attention with effort‚ as it is called‚—which we can give to objects less interesting or uninteresting
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self-delusion or dreamy confusion of thought. What does James Williams say about mysticism? James focuses more on the individual aspect of mysticism. He believes that there are two characteristic outcomes of mysticism. One being optimism and the other being monism. I also think we need to ask the question‚ “What exactly is a mystical experience?” A mystical experience is something that a human being experiences in another realm of consciousness. William James seems to have his own take about mystical experiences
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On January 11th‚ 1842 William James was born in New York City‚ New York. He was educated by tutors as well as attended private school. His family move frequently between America and Europe‚ while they were in Europe he attends school in Geneva‚ Paris and Boulogne-Sur-Mer. In 1861 he joined the Union under a three-month enlistment‚ he abandoned the painting and enters Harvard specifically the Lawrence Scientific School. In 1864 he enters Harvard school of medicine‚ a year later he went on an expedition
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Will to Believe”‚ William James believes that it is not always wrong to believe something based on insufficient evidence. We can see that this belief came to be because James realized that the various beliefs that had been pushed upon him his whole life (that everything had to be rational) actually conflicted with his religious beliefs. It was at this point in his life where James began to feel useless‚ and decided to turn to philosophy. As he turned to philosophy for comfort‚ James began to argue
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To look at the unseen from William James point of view is believed to be a course of unrealistic events‚ which is true to many extents however he tries to lean towards the rationalism point of view. The Christian point of view on the unseen is more of a spiritual sense of the “unseen” it is appeared as a unforeseen world‚ for example there “unseen” is a view of the spiritual world ‚thus they are referring to as God he is known of a majority of there religion have never foreseen him or witnessed
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War is a current moral issue because violence is regarded as wrong. Instead of war there should be negotiation and arbitration. War is violent conflict between human beings. There have been many conflicts and wars in history but it is known that humans have also thought about morals and ethics during that time. Although during war many lives are lost and damaged almost all human beings know and have been taught from religion and culture that taking away one’s life is morally wrong. Blood is shed
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William James Biography (1842-1910) By Kendra Cherry Timeline of Events: Born January 11‚ 1842 in New York City. 1869 - Received M.D. from Harvard. 1875 - Began teaching psychology at Harvard. 1882 - Death of William’s father‚ Henry James Sr. 1890 - Published The Principles of Psychology. 1892 - Turned lab over to Hugo Munsterberg. 1897 - Published Will to Believe and Other Essays 1907 - Published Pragmatism and officially resigned from Harvard
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