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  title info:
    title: Selected papers on philosophy
  title info:
    title: PsycBOOKs
  name:
    name part: James, William
    name part: 1842-1910
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Bakewell, Charles Montague
    name part: 1867-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 1917
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 273 pages)
  abstract: "This volume serves as a compilation of some of the principal philosophical works by William James. The papers reprinted in this book are derived from multiple sources. One does not think of James as a man with a philosophy, but rather as one who cleared the decks for all future philosophising. At very rare intervals in the history of philosophy there have appeared thinkers who, like William James, are too real to be readily classified-thinkers who cut under the distinctions that divide men into schools. When they appear they always speak the language of the people for the simple reason that they are interpreting life as real men live it with a freshness of vision unknown in the schools. The influence of William James has probably travelled further and gone deeper than that of any other American scholar. Into the languages of all civilised peoples his works have been translated, and everywhere they have met with instant recognition. Perhaps the chief reason for the popularity of James's philosophy is the sense of freedom it brings with it. It is the philosophy of open doors; the philosophy of a new world with a large frontier and, beyond, the enticing unexplored lands where one may still expect the unexpected; a philosophy of hope and promise, a philosophy that invites adventure, since it holds that the dice of experience are not loaded. The older monistic philosophies and religions present by contrast stuffy closed systems and an exhausted universe. They seem to pack the individual into a logical strait-jacket and to represent all history as simply the unfolding of a play that was written to its very last line from the dawn of creation. These old absolutisms go with the old order of things. James, however, is an interpreter of the new order of democracy"--Introduction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved).
  table of contents: On a certain blindness in human beings.--The gospel of relaxation.--The energies of men.--Habit.--The will.--Philosophy and its critics.--The will to believe.--The sentiment of rationality--Great men and their environment.--What pragmatism means.--Humanism and truth.--The positive content of religious experience.
  note: by William James.
  note: Introduction by C.M. Bakewell.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
  note: digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xv).
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B945.J29 S4
  classification: 104
  classification: 100
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Everyman's library. Philosophy & theology ; [no. 739]
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Selected papers on philosophy
    name:
      name part: James, William, 1842-1910.
    origin info:
      publisher: London, Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. [1917]
    identifier: (DLC)a 18000314
    identifier: (OCoLC)271418
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    record content source: OCLCE
    record creation date: 100601
    record change date: 20260612153318.7
    record identifier: in00003522738
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng