Category: Metaphysics

• January 6, 2015

  William James on the divine and the religious attitude: Confusions discussed

  In the beginning of The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James writes so beautifully about religious experience, so respectfully about subjects that fly in the face of what he calls in the Preface ‘medical materialism.’ Take this early, muscular, stylistically delicate passage on the concepts of the divine and the religious attitude: There must be something solemn, serious, and tender…