William James Flashcards
Theory? Charles Sanders Peirce
Pragmatism theory of meaning and truth
WJ 主义？
Radical Empiricism, Pragmatism, Pluralism
James’ famous remark of religious faith, there are cases
where a fact cannot come at all unless a preliminary faith exists in its coming.
James remarked in light of scholars’ “explaining away evil and pain” that
This is the condition of humans, and what these people experience is Reality.
WJ opposed to a conception of reality which
is divorced from actual experience
How did Russell describe WJ’s tolerant sentiment?
Democratic sentiment
WJ’s moral for philos was that it should seek the kind of
dynamic and relational
living understanding of the movement of reality (dynamic), which results from putting oneself in intuitive sympathy with things in the making (relational).
U: philosophical faith as being fundamentally of an aesthetically and not a logical sort
General attitude instead of correct solutions to sets of problems
WJ’s characterization of the history of philos
clash of temperaments
WJ’s pragmatic method forbids us to rest content with
a solving name like (God/Matter/Reason/Absolute)
What was it that WJ claimed to have learned from JSM?
the pragmatic openness of mind
The difference of emphasis among rationalists and empiricists breed…
antipathies of the most pungent character between those who lay the emphasis differently
The antagonism between the tender-minded and the tough-minded, whenever as individuals their temperaments have been intense, has formed
a part of the philosophic atmosphere of the time
It is WJ’s belief that the intensity of the individual’s temperament contributes largely to the formation of…
the philosophic atmosphere that is characteristic of a particular time
U: WJ’s pluralistic monism.
“the world is indubitably one if you look at it in one way, but as indubitable is it many, if you look at it in another.
Seen from one perspective, the world is indubitably one.
Seen from another perspective, the world is equally indubitably many.
