Be Not Afraid of Life (eBook)

In the Words of William James

William James (Autor)

John Kaag, Jonathan Van Belle (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
384 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22957-7 (ISBN)

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A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James-psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker-is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life's meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how they live. The thinker who helped found the philosophy of pragmatism and inspire Alcoholics Anonymous, James famously asked, "e;is life worth living?"e; Bringing together many of his best and most popular essays, talks, and other writings, this anthology presents James's answer to that and other existential questions, in his own unique manner-caring, humorous, eloquent, incisive, humble, and forever on the trail of the "e;ever not quite."e;Here we meet a James perfectly attuned to the concerns of today-one who argues for human freedom, articulates a healthy-minded psychology, urges us to explore the stream of consciousness, presents a new definition of truth based on its practical consequences, and never forecloses the possibility of mystical transcendence. Introduced by John Kaag and Jonathan van Belle, these compelling and accessible selections reveal why James is one of the great guides to the business of living.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Absolute Idealism • Admiration • Allegory • A Matter of Fact • Anecdote • awareness • Certainty • Consciousness • contentment • Courage • Customer • Depression (mood) • Discernment • Disposition • Empirical Evidence • ethicist • ethics • existence of god • Explanation • Faith • faithfulness • Feeling • fertility • Fine Art • gloom • gullibility • Hatha Yoga • Health • Hegelianism • human action • Human nature • Human power • humility • hypothesis • Imagination • Immutable object • indeterminism • Individualism • ineffability • inkling • Instant • Irrationality • Lightness • Lightness (philosophy) • Logic • Loyalty • Metaphysics • Military Service • Moisture • moral responsibility • Motivation • non-human • Obedience (human behavior) • Omniscience • On Truth • optimism • originality • Our Choice • perception • pessimism • Philosopher • Philosophy • Physiology • Pragmatism • Present Day • pride • Principle • Principle of Sufficient Reason • Rationality • Reality • reason • rebuttal • Religion • religious experience • religious text • result • sanity • saving • Self-reliance • sensibility • seriousness • sobriety • Social reality • Stoicism • Subjectivism • Subjectivity • Suggestion • Supporter • Term logic • The Light of Day (Graham Swift novel) • The Nature of Truth • The Other Hand • Thought • tranquillity • Transcendental idealism • Transcendentalism • Truth • Uniformitarianism • Utilitarianism • Utopia
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22957-0 / 0691229570
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22957-7 / 9780691229577