9781720582106

The Will to Believe

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ISBN13: 9781720582106

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The Will to Believe by William James. "The Will to Believe" is a lecture by William James, first published in 1896, which defends, in certain cases, the adoption of a belief without prior evidence of its truth. In particular, James is concerned in this lecture about defending the rationality of religious faith even lacking sufficient evidence of religious truth. I have long defended to my own students the lawfulness of voluntarily adopted faith; but as soon as they have got well imbued with the logical spirit, they have as a rule refused to admit my contention to be lawful philosophically, even though in point of fact they were personally all the time chock-full of some faith or other themselves. I am all the while, however, so profoundly convinced that my own position is correct, that your invitation has seemed to me a good occasion to make my statements more clear. Perhaps your minds will be more open than those with which I have hitherto had to deal, I will be as little technical as I can, though I must begin by setting up some technical distinctions that will help us in the end.

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9781720582106

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1720582106

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0.12 Pounds

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6.00 x 0.07 x 9.00 In

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$8.95

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

30 pages

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published On

2018-05-31



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