James' work has influenced intellectuals such as Émile Durkheim, W. He also developed the philosophical perspective known as radical empiricism. Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and John Dewey, he is considered to be one of the greatest figures associated with the philosophical school known as pragmatism, and is also cited as one of the founders of the functional psychology. The first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States, James was one of the leading thinkers of the late nineteenth century and is believed by many to be one of the most influential philosophers the United States has ever produced, while others have labelled him the "Father of American psychology".
William James (Janu– August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was also trained as a physician. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Applying his analytic clarity to religious accounts from a variety of sources, James elaborates a pluralistic framework in which "the divine can mean no single quality, it must mean a group of qualities, by being champions of which in alternation, different men may all find worthy missions." It's an intellectual call for serious religious tolerance - indeed, respect - the vitality of which has not diminished through the subsequent decades. Reading The Varieties of Religious Experience, it is easy to see why. When William James went to the University of Edinburgh in 1901 to deliver a series of lectures on "natural religion," he defined religion as "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine." Considering religion, then, not as it is defined by-or takes place in-the churches, but as it is felt in everyday life, he undertook a project that, upon completion, stands not only as one of the most important texts on psychology ever written, not only as a vitally serious contemplation of spirituality, but for many critics one of the best works of nonfiction written in the 20th century. It would seem, therefore, as a psychologist, the natural thing for me would be to invite you to a descriptive survey of those religious propensities."
To the psychologist the religious propensities of man must be at least as interesting as any other of the facts pertaining to his mental constitution. Psychology is the only branch of learning in which I am particularly versed. "I am neither a theologian, nor a scholar learned in the history of religions, nor an anthropologist.
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