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William James
Title: William James
Category: Society & Culture / Religion
Details: Words: 735 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
William James
William James in his work “Religious Experience as the Root of Religion” argued that there is no validity in the claim of rationalism to assert the existence of only one consciousness. He based this off the foundation that the human being first perceives reality through the senses and that the human intellect comes into action after the individual feels the occurring experience.
James attempted to expand his argument through objectively drawing factual evidence from what …showed first 75 words of 735 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 735 total…fact from fiction within our experience. I find that if the role of the intellect as a main component in the perception of truth is neglected, then one’s perception of what is factual or fictional in reality will be blurred. The intellect plays the part of at least categorizing thoughts and ideas, which James has done in his attempt to objectively argue that the mystical consciousness is just as valid as the non-mystical consciousness.
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