Be Not Afraid of Life
In the Words of William James
1st Edition
Published on 10. October 2022
384 pages
978-0-691-22957-7 (ISBN)
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John Kaag is the Donahue Professor of Ethics and the Arts at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is the author of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton), American Bloods, Hiking with Nietzsche, and American Philosophy. Jonathan van Belle is a writer and editor and the author, with Kaag, of Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living and Thinking through Writing (both Princeton).
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Determinism and Despair
- 1. Letter to Thomas Wren Ward (1868)
- 2. "The Sick Soul," from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
- 3. "The Dilemma of Determinism" (1897)
- Freedom and Life
- 4. "The Will to Believe" (1897)
- 5. "Is Life Worth Living?" (1897)
- Psychology and the Healthy Mind
- 6. "What Makes a Life Significant" (1900)
- 7. Chapter IX, "The Stream of Thought," and Chapter X, "The Consciousness of Self," from The Principlesof Psychology (1890)
- 8. "The Energies of Men" (1907)
- Consciousness and Transcendence
- 9. A Review of Benjamin Paul Blood's The Anesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy (1874)
- 10. "On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings"(1899)
- Truth and Consequences
- 11. "What Pragmatism Means" (1903)
- 12. "The Moral Equivalent of War" (1903)
- Wonderand Hope
- 13. "Mysticism," from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
- 14. "Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine" (1897)
- 15. "A Pluralistic Mystic" (1910)
- Index
