Ep. 345: William James on Religious Experience (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life · Mark Linsenmayer
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Show Notes
On The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), focusing on lectures 1-3 and 20. What is religion and how should philosophers study it?
James describes it as a sincere, full-life reaction to the world, more emotional than intellectual, and conveys the experiences of the extreme "religious geniuses" that are merely received second or third hand by the believing masses.
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