William James, moral philosophy, and the ethical life. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jacob L. Goodson.
• Editors: Goodson, Jacob L
• Contents: Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part I. Moral Interpretations of <span style="font-style:italic;">The Principles of Psychology ; 1. Guy Axtell, “Emotions and Morals in <span style="font-style:italic;">The Principles of Psychology ” ; 2. Gregory Eiselein, “Ethics and Emotion in William James’s <span style="font-style:italic;">The Principles of Psychology ” ; 3. Jacob L. Goodson, “Love and Sex in William James’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Principles of Psychology ” ; Part II. James’s Early Writings on Moral Philosophy ; 4. <a style="text-decoration: none;" href="https://webmail.sckans.edu/exchange/jacob.goodson/Inbox/Re:%20THE%20CRIES%20OF%20THE%20WOUNDED:%20WILLIAM%20JAMES, %20MORAL%20PHILOSOPHY, %20AND%20THE%20MORAL%20LIFE-24.EML/?cmd=editrecipient&Index=-1">Amy Kittelstrom, “Blindnesses in James’s Day—and Beyond” ; 5. D. Micah Hester & Joseph D. John, “To See or Not to See?”—That Is the Question: James’s “On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings” ; 6. Jacob L. Goodson, “Horny Hands and Dirty Skin: Courage, Humility, Patience, and Tolerance in William James’s Ethics” ; Part III. Moral Interpretations of James’s “Popular Essays” ; 7. Roger Ward, “The Cries of the Wounded: Transformative Moral Interpretation in James, Royce, and Peirce” ; 8. John R. Shook, “The Moral Life as the Basis for Moral Philosophy” ; 9. Neal A. Tognazzini, “Regretting the Impossible” ; Part IV. The Morality and Immorality of James’s “The Will-to-Believe” Argument ; 10. Scott F. Aikin & Robert B. Talisse, “The Will-to-Believe is Immoral” ; 11. Scott R. Stroud & Jaishikha Nautiyal, “Stoic Rhetoric and the Ethics of Empowered Individualism: “The Will to Believe” as Moral Philosophy” ; Part V. The Moral Implications of James’s Lectures on Human Immortality ; 12. Anthony Karlin, “William James on Human Immortality” ; 13. Ermine L. Algaier IV, “A Radical Empiricist Defense of Irrationality” ; Part VI. Moral Interpretations of <span style="font-style:italic;">The Varieties of Religious Experience ; 14. G. Scott Davis, “ Understanding the Warrior Spirit: William James on Nature, Virtue, and the Will to Empire” ; 15. Eric Silverman, “ William James and Thomas Aquinas on the Fruits of Love and Saintliness” ; 16. <span style="font-weight:bold;"> Lee Yearley, “William James as Virtue Ethicist: The Heroic Virtue of Voluntary Poverty” ; Part VII. Moral Interpretations of James’s Pluralism and Pragmatism ; 17. Frederick J. Ruf, “Is James an Existentialist?” ; 18. Sami Pihlström, “The Cries of the Wounded in <span style="font-style:italic;">Pragmatism : The Problem of Evil and James’s Pragmatic Method as an Ethical Grounding of Metaphysics” ; 19. Guy Axtell, “James on Pragmatism and Religion” ; 20. Seth Vannatta, “ Leaping into the Gap: Religion and the Moral Life” ; 21. Gary S. Slater, “The Moral Framework of <span style="font-style:italic;">A Pluralistic Universe ” ; Part VIII. James’s Later Writings on Moral Philosophy ; 22. Pamela Crosby, “ The Education of Moral Character: A Comparison of James and Aristotle” ; 23. David O’Hara, “Is War Evil? Reflections on William James’s ‘The Moral Equivalent of War’” ; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 171; Ethics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780739190142
• Related ISBNs: 9781498505147
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