PHIL 2030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Empiricism
7 Apr 2015
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The varieties of religious experience (1902: a little bit about william james, his father was a religious thinker who came from money, brought up with a great respect for religion but was not brought up with someone who worshiped it (did not go to church, etc. , looked for a path to follow, started with painted and realized that wasn"t it, he then enrolled in medical school and got bored, he then went to the. Amazon (agassiz has an expedition in the amazon) and decides he wants to be a naturalist (collect specimens, bring them back and study them), ended up living in his parents house and has something like a nervous breakdown (doesn"t know what to do with his life, and philosophically is worried that life has no meaning) since he hasn"t really done anything with his life: defends faith, believes philosophers should speak to non philosophers and talk to them about things that matter to them, such as:
