The Philosophy of William James
β Scribed by Walter Robert Corti (Hg.)
- Publisher
- Felix Meiner Verlag
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- German
- Leaves
- 398
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
This book contains the papers of the Fourth Seminar in American Philosophy that was held in Winterthur, Switzerland, September 3-7, 1973. The subject of the seminar was the Philosophy of William James, which can be described as pragmatism. James himself understood by it Β»a new name for old ways of thinkingΒ« and put life, practice and action in the centre of his thinking β not the thinking itself as he regarded it as a Β»newΒ« achievement in the development of mankind.
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This 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 nature and mak