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Sick souls, healthy minds : how William James can save your life /
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| 자료유형 | E-Book |
|---|---|
| 개인저자 | Kaag, John J., 1979-, author. |
| 서명/저자사항 | Sick souls, healthy minds :how William James can save your life /John Kaag. |
| 판사항 | 1st. |
| 발행사항 | Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020. |
| 발행예정일자 | 2003 |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource |
| 소장본 주기 | Master record variable field(s) change: 072 |
| ISBN | 0691200939 9780691200934 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | Frontmatter --Contents --Prologue: "A Disgust for Life" --1. Determinism and Despair --2. Freedom and Life --3. Psychology and the Healthy Mind --4. Consciousness and Transcendence --5. Truth and Consequences --6. Wonder and Hope --Acknowledgments --Notes --Suggested Reading --Index |
| 요약 | "In his diaries, the American philosopher and psychologist William James, for whom the personal and the philosophical were never far apart, recounted how in his late twenties he was confronted with existential despair regarding the issue of free will: do humans have the capacity to act freely and meaningfully? James famously decided that his "first act of free will is to believe in free will," and declared that, "if you can change your mind, you can change your life." This belief in the efficacy of ideas on our practical beliefs and actions would lead to James becoming one of the founders of the first truly distinctively American philosophy, Pragmatism. In this book philosopher John Kaag offers an account of the life, thought, and relevance of James's philosophy for today. He argues that his brand of pragmatism was first and foremost a philosophy geared towards saving a life; namely, James's own, but with important resources and lessons for saving ours as well. James believed that philosophy was meant to articulate, and help answer, a single existential question, one which lent itself to the title of one of his most famous essays: "Is life worth living?" Through examination of an array of existentially loaded topics covered in his works-truth, God, evil, suffering, death, and the meaning of life-James concluded that it is up to us to make life worth living. He said that our beliefs, the truths that guide our lives, matter-their value and veracity turn on the way they play out practically for ourselves and our communities. For James, philosophy was about making life meaningful, and for some of us, liveable. This is the core of his "pragmatic maxim," that truth should be judged on the bases of its practical consequences. Kaag shows how James put this maxim into use in his philosophy and his life and how we can do so in our own. In his perhaps most famous and enduring work, The Varieties of Religious Experience, James devoted two chapters to exploring what he saw as two distinct types of personality, "the sick-souled" and "the healthy-minded." James himself, as Kaag shows, tended more toward the sick-souled side of the spectrum. But both types fascinated James and he thought both provided important sources for understanding not just religious experience, but for how we can think about our own orientation to the world and perhaps reorient ourselves in the process"-- |
| 주제명(개인명) | James, William,1842-1910. James, William,1842-1910. -- fast -- |
| 일반주제명 | Pragmatism. PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism. |
| 언어 | 영어 |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version:Kaag, John J., 1979-Sick souls, healthy minds1st.Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2020.9780691192161 |
| 대출바로가기 | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2246085 |
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