The Will To Believe/Human Immortality

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William James THE WILL TO BELIEVE
and other essays in popular philosophy
HUMAN IMMORTALITY
both books bound as one
This volume contains the complété texts of two books by America's most important psychologist and philosopher. Easy to understand, yet brilliant and penetrating, the books were written specifically for lay-men and they are still stimulating reading for readers concerned with important questions of belief in an âge of science.
In the essays, under the heading The Will to Believe, James dis-cusses, first, the interrelationships of belief, will, and intellect, exam-ining such questions as: How does man believe? How do intellectual considérations color belief? How much of a rôle do irrational elements play even in rigorously logical thought? Chance versus determinism, free will versus fate, pluralism versus monism are discussed in suc-ceeding sections. James also covers psychical research. Hegelianism, and Spencer's philosophy.
Human Immortality : Two Supposed... Tovább

Fülszöveg

William James THE WILL TO BELIEVE
and other essays in popular philosophy
HUMAN IMMORTALITY
both books bound as one
This volume contains the complété texts of two books by America's most important psychologist and philosopher. Easy to understand, yet brilliant and penetrating, the books were written specifically for lay-men and they are still stimulating reading for readers concerned with important questions of belief in an âge of science.
In the essays, under the heading The Will to Believe, James dis-cusses, first, the interrelationships of belief, will, and intellect, exam-ining such questions as: How does man believe? How do intellectual considérations color belief? How much of a rôle do irrational elements play even in rigorously logical thought? Chance versus determinism, free will versus fate, pluralism versus monism are discussed in suc-ceeding sections. James also covers psychical research. Hegelianism, and Spencer's philosophy.
Human Immortality : Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine, re-printed here from the corrected second édition, examines the questions of survival after death, and provides an unusual philosophical rebuttal to the theory that thought and personality necessarily die with the brain.
Unaltered, unabridged republication, in one volume, of the Ist édition of The Will to Believe and the 2nd édition of Human Immortality. Author's préfacés. Notes. Index, xxx -j- 402pp. x 8. Paperbound. Vissza