The Philosophy of William James
The Philosophy of William James
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As we grant to the advocate of the mechanical theory that it may be one, so he must grant to us that it may not. And the result is two conceptions of possibility, face to face, with no facts definitely enough known to stand as arbiter between them. Under these circumstances, one can leave the question open whilst waiting for light, or one can do what most speculative minds do, that is, look to one's general philosophy to incline the beam. The believers in mechanism do so without hesitation, and... they ought not to refuse a similar privilege to the believers in a spiritual force. I count myself among the latter, but as my reasons are ethical, they are hardly suited for introduction into a psychological work. The last * Op, cit. , vol. I. , p. 448.
WILL 45 word of psychology here is ignorance, for the ' forces ' engaged are certainly too delicate and numerous to be followed in detail. "* This quotation plainly hints at what James regards as the real problem. And later he repeats that " the question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychologic grounds, " and refers us to an ethical discourse on " The Dilemma of Deter- minism, "t permitting himself only "a few words about the logic of the question.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
As we grant to the advocate of the mechanical theory that it may be one, so he must grant to us that it may not. And the result is two conceptions of possibility, face to face, with no facts definitely enough known to stand as arbiter between them. Under these circumstances, one can leave the question open whilst waiting for light, or one can do what most speculative minds do, that is, look to one's general philosophy to incline the beam. The believers in mechanism do so without hesitation, and... they ought not to refuse a similar privilege to the believers in a spiritual force. I count myself among the latter, but as my reasons are ethical, they are hardly suited for introduction into a psychological work. The last * Op, cit. , vol. I. , p. 448.
WILL 45 word of psychology here is ignorance, for the ' forces ' engaged are certainly too delicate and numerous to be followed in detail. "* This quotation plainly hints at what James regards as the real problem. And later he repeats that " the question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychologic grounds, " and refers us to an ethical discourse on " The Dilemma of Deter- minism, "t permitting himself only "a few words about the logic of the question.
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