Varieties of Religious Experience – William James

William James - The Varieties of Religious Experience, thoughtsofgod.com, Thoughts of God, David Reese

The course is not anthropological, but deals with personal documents. Percepts versus abstract concepts-Happiness is man’s chief concern-Healthy-mindedness and repentance- Heterogeneous personality- Sudden conversion- Testing human value of its fruits- Mysticism defined- Primacy of feeling in religion- Philosophy a secondary function- Aesthetic elements in religion- Summary of religious characteristics

argumentum ad hominem

argumentum ad hominem (Latin) n (Logic) fallacious argument that attacks not an opponent’s beliefs but his motives or character argument that shows an opponent’s statement to be inconsistent with his other beliefs This project intends to be an exploration of thought with the expectation of interaction with truth. Any thought can contained some truth somewhere, […]