Lecture Xix. Other Characteristics : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 448 LECTURE XIX OTHER CHARACTERISTICS We have wound our way back, after our excursion through mysticism and philosophy, to where we were before: the uses of religion, its uses to the individual who has it, and the uses...
Lecture Iii. The Reality Of The Unseen : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 53 LECTURE III THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and th...
Title Page : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE A STUDY IN HUMAN NATURE Being The Gifford Lectures On Natural Religion Delivered At Edinburgh In 1901-1902. BY WILLIAM JAMES [1902] Proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare, April 2008. This...
Lectures Vi And Vii. The Sick Soul : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 125 LECTURES VI AND VII THE SICK SOUL At our last meeting, we considered the healthy-minded temperament, the temperament which has a constitutional incapacity for prolonged suffering, and in which the tendency to see things...
Preface : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. xv PREFACE This book would never have been written had I not been honored with an appointment as Gifford Lecturer on Natural Religion at the University of Edinburgh. In casting about me for subjects of the two courses of ten...
Lectures Iv And V. The Religion Of Healthy : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 77 LECTURES IV AND V THE RELIGION OF HEALTHY MINDEDNESS If we were to ask the question: "What is human life's chief concern?" one of the answers we should receive would be: "It is happiness." How to gain, how to keep, how...
Lecture Ii. Circumscription Of The Topic : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 27 LECTURE II CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC Most books on the philosophy of religion try to begin with a precise definition of what its essence consists of. Some of these would-be definitions may possibly come before us in later...
Lectures Xiv And Xv. The Value Of Saintliness : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 320 LECTURES XIV AND XV THE VALUE OF SAINTLINESS We have now passed in review the more important of the phenomena which are regarded as fruits of genuine religion and characteristics of men who are devout. Today we have...
Lectures Xvi And Xvii. Mysticism : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 370 LECTURES XVI AND XVII MYSTICISM Over and over again in these lectures I have raised points and left them open and unfinished until we should have come to the subject of Mysticism. Some of you, I fear, may have smiled as you...
Untitled : * "In all sad sincerity I think we must conclude that the attempt to demonstrate by purely intellectual processes the truth of the deliverances of direct religious experience is absolutely hopeless...It would be unfair to philosophy, however, to leave her under this negative sentence. Let me close...
Lecture Ix. Conversion : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 186 LECTURE IX CONVERSION To be converted, to be regenerated, to receive grace, to experience religion, to gain an assurance, are so many phrases which denote the process, gradual or sudden, by which a self hitherto divided...
Lectures Xi, Xii, And Xiii. Saintliness : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 254 LECTURES XI, XII, AND XIII SAINTLINESS The last lecture left us in a state of expectancy. What may the practical fruits for life have been, of such movingly happy conversions as those we heard of? With this questi...
Lecture Xviii. Philosophy : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 421 LECTURE XVIII PHILOSOPHY The subject of Saintliness left us face to face with the question, Is the sense of divine presence a sense of anything objectively true? We turned first to mysticism for an answer, and found th...
Lecture Viii. The Divided Self, And The Process : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 163 LECTURE VIII THE DIVIDED SELF, AND THE PROCESS OF ITS UNIFICATION The last lecture was a painful one, dealing as it did with evil as a pervasive element of the world we live in. At the close of it we were brought into full...
Lecture I. Religion And Neurology : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 1 THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE p. 2 p. 3 LECTURE I RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY It is with no small amount of trepidation that I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned audience. To us Americans, the experience...
Note On The Author : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910) A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF "THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE" The road by which William James arrived at his position of leadership among American philosophers was, during his childhood, youth and early...
Postscript : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 510 POSTSCRIPT In writing my concluding lecture I had to aim so much at simplification that I fear that my general philosophic position received so scant a statement as hardly to be intelligible to some of my readers. I...
Lecture X. Conversionconcluded : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 213 LECTURE X CONVERSION--Concluded In this lecture we have to finish the subject of Conversion, considering at first those striking instantaneous instances of which Saint Paul's is the most eminent, and in which, often amid...
Lecture Xx. Conclusions : * "The Varieties of Religous Experience", by William James, [1902], p. 475 LECTURE XX CONCLUSIONS The material of our study of human nature is now spread before us; and in this parting hour, set free from the duty of description, we can draw our theoretical and practical conclusions. In my first...
