CONCLUSIONS The Varieties of Religious Experience
Our conclusions cannot be as sharp as dogmatic conclusions would be, but I will formulate them, when the time comes, as sharply as I can.
RELIGION OF HEALTHY-MINDEDNESS – William James
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness, is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
Religion and Neurology – Varieties of Religious Experience
The question, What are the religious propensities? and the question, What is their philosophic significance? are two entirely different orders of question from the logical point of view;
William James – What is the Nature and Value of Religious Propensity?
The question, What are the religious propensities? and the question, What is their philosophic significance? are two entirely different orders of question from the logical point of view; and, as a failure to recognize this fact distinctly may breed confusion, I wish to insist upon the point a little before we enter into the documents […]
William James – Feelings and Impulses Must be the Subject of Psychological Inquiry
If the inquiry be psychological, not religious institutions, but rather religious feelings and religious impulses must be its subject, and I must confine myself to those more developed subjective phenomena recorded in literature produced by articulate and fully self-conscious men, in works of piety and autobiography. The Varieties of Religious Experience, by William James, Lecture […]
Existential Facts are Insufficient for Determining Spiritual Value – William James
You see that the existential facts by themselves are insufficient for determining the value; and the best adepts of the higher criticism accordingly never confound the existential with the spiritual problem. With the same conclusions of fact before them, some take one view, and some another, of the Bible’s value as a revelation, according as […]