Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism, Volumen1J. Lane, 1912 - 215 páginas |
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Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism, Volumen1 Vernon Lee Vista completa - 1912 |
Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism, Volumen1 Vernon Lee Vista completa - 1912 |
Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism, Volumen1 Vernon Lee Vista completa - 1912 |
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Absolute accept ancestor worship ANTI-PRAGMATIST assimilate attitude C. S. Peirce called cash-value Charles Sanders Peirce Christianity Church clash consciousness contradiction definition Divinity doctrine emotion existence fact false Father Tyrrell feeling formula function in experience Giovanni Vailati habits ideas clear individual intellectual James and Schiller James's Jesus John Stuart Mill man's meaning melioristic merely Messrs James mind Modernists monism moral mystical nature notion object OBSCURANTISM opinion ourselves particular passion Peirce Peirce's perhaps person philosophical postulate practical difference Prag Pragmatic Principle Pragmatist primæval Professor James prove psychology question quotations reader reality reason religion Religious Experience religious habits Religious Idea result revelation sacraments scientific sense sentence so-far-forth spiritual starts the Verification-Process symbol thing thought tion transcendental true ideas true-in-so-far-forth truth Tyrrell's universe utilitarian value for knowledge Varieties of Religious verify vitally beneficial belief W. K. Clifford whole Will-to Will-to-Believe William James words
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Página 69 - Let me now say only this, that truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and coordinate with it. The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.
Página 68 - The true," to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as "the right" is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.
Página 79 - If theological ideas prove to have a value for concrete life, they will be true, for pragmatism, in the sense of being good for so much. For how much more they are true, will depend entirely on their relations to the other truths that also have to be acknowledged.
Página 116 - The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.
Página 73 - If there be any life that it is really better we should lead, and if there be any idea which, if believed in, would help us to lead that life, then it would be really better for us to believe in that idea, unless, indeed, belief in it incidentally clashed with other greater vital benefits.
Página 20 - The opinion which is fated to be ultimately agreed to by all who investigate, is what we mean by the truth, and the object represented in this opinion is the real.
Página 66 - The essential thing is the process of being guided. Any idea that helps us to deal, whether practically or intellectually, with either the reality or its belongings, that doesn't entangle our progress in frustrations, that fits, in fact, and adapts our life to the reality's whole setting, will agree sufficiently to meet the requirement. It will hold true of that reality. Thus, names are just as 'true' or 'false' as definite mental pictures are.
Página 212 - So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality ; then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 0 death, where is thy sting ? 0 grave, where is thy victory ? The sting of death is sin ; and the strength of sin is the Law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Página 20 - On the other hand, all the followers of science are fully persuaded that the processes of investigation, if only pushed far enough, will give one certain solution to every question to which they can be applied.
Página 24 - But in this world, just as certain foods are not only agreeable to our taste, but good for our teeth, our stomach, and our tissues; so certain ideas are not only agreeable to think about, or agreeable as supporting other ideas that we are fond of, but they are also helpful in life's practical struggles.