The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
James William
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; H. Lotze, Logib, sects. 342-331 ; C. Sigwart, Logik, seels. 60-63, '"S' Reflex Action and Theism. 121 of human thought, from Venus and Jupiter to the ' Idee ' which figures in the pages of Hegel, Even the laws of physical nature have, in tliese positivis- tic times, been held worthy of divine honor and pre- sented as the only fitting object of our reverence.^ Of course, if our discussion is to bear any fruit, we must mean something more definite than this. We must not call any object of our l...oyalty a ' God ' with- out more ado, simply because to awaken our loyalty happens to be one of God's functions. He must have some intrinsic characteristics of his own besides; and theigm must- mean -the faith of that man who believes that the object of liis loyalty has those other attributes, negative or positive, as the case may be. Now, as regards a great many of the attributes of God, and their amounts and mutual relations, the world has been delivered over to disputes. All such may for our present purpose be considered as quite inessential.
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