In William K. Clifford’s‚ The Ethics of Belief‚ he begins the essay telling a story of a ship-owner. The ship-owner was in the process of allowing a ship to sail off into the sea carrying emigrants. He knew the ship was old‚ needed to be rebuilt and was overworked. In his mind‚ he knew that the ship was not seaworthy which made him unhappy. The problem that plagued him the most were the possible expenses to the ship and he simply did not want to pay them. So instead of getting the ship repaired‚
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XI. ATTENTION Whoever treats of interest inevitably treats of attention‚ for to say that an object is interesting is only another way of saying that it excites attention. But in addition to the attention which any object already interesting or just becoming interesting claims—passive attention or spontaneous attention‚ we may call it—there is a more deliberate attention‚—voluntary attention or attention with effort‚ as it is called‚—which we can give to objects less interesting or uninteresting
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Best Known For: Alfred Adler By Kendra Cherry Ads: Individual Psychology The concept of the inferiority complex President of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society‚ 1910 Birth: Alfred Adler was born February 7‚ 1870. Death: He died May 28‚ 1937. Early Life: Alfred Adler was born in Vienna‚ Austria. He suffered rickets as a young child which prevented him from walking until the age of four. Due to his health problems as a child‚ Adler decided he would become a physician and‚ after graduating from the University
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WILLIAM JAMES January 11‚ 1842 – August 26‚ 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology‚ educational psychology‚ psychology of religious experience and mysticism‚ and the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. William James was born at the Astor House in New York City‚ son of Henry James‚ Sr.‚ an independently wealthy and notoriously eccentric Swedenborgian theologian
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On January 11th‚ 1842 William James was born in New York City‚ New York. He was educated by tutors as well as attended private school. His family move frequently between America and Europe‚ while they were in Europe he attends school in Geneva‚ Paris and Boulogne-Sur-Mer. In 1861 he joined the Union under a three-month enlistment‚ he abandoned the painting and enters Harvard specifically the Lawrence Scientific School. In 1864 he enters Harvard school of medicine‚ a year later he went on an expedition
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self-delusion or dreamy confusion of thought. What does James Williams say about mysticism? James focuses more on the individual aspect of mysticism. He believes that there are two characteristic outcomes of mysticism. One being optimism and the other being monism. I also think we need to ask the question‚ “What exactly is a mystical experience?” A mystical experience is something that a human being experiences in another realm of consciousness. William James seems to have his own take about mystical experiences
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From the beginning of his book James has written that any experience the individual has needs to be processed‚ labeled and categorized by the individual. Even though the individual gets their labels and categories from society and their background‚ the experiences they have shape and possibly change those labels. James writes that if an individual has a mystical experience only that individual understands it: “The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of
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John Locke Vs. Bernard Williams In this essay‚ I will be explaining John Locke’s case of the prince and the cobbler and Bernard Williams’s second description of the A-body person and the B-body person. Bernard Williams has the correct analysis of the situation where the body is part of self-identity since it is inevitable for us to fear future pain. John Locke claims that memory is the key to identity‚ so “as far [as] someone’s memory goes‚ is so far the identity of the person.” (Campbell) First
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“William James and Functionalism” I. Introduction William James (January 11‚ 1842 – August 26‚ 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist who had trained as a physician. He was the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. James wrote influential books on pragmatism‚ psychology‚ educational psychology‚ the psychology of religious experience‚ and mysticism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. In the
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Through many of his poems‚ William Carlos Williams presents the reality of poverty among a great portion of the American society. Within Williams’ work of Selected Poems‚ he not only reveals the trapped lifestyle of those living in poverty‚ but he also represents the horror of the war between social classes along with the coinciding war on the poor. Williams’ use of plutonic images among these poems provides powerful meaning to his argument of American societal values‚ claiming the men of America
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