Sick souls, healthy minds:
Kaag, John
Sick souls, healthy minds: how William James can save your life - Princeton Princeton University Press 2020 - 210 p.
Table of Contents:
Prologue: "A Disgust for Life"
1. Determinism and Despair
2. Freedom and Life
3. Psychology and the Healthy Mind
4. Consciousness and Transcendence
5. Truth and Consequences
6. Wonder and Hope
Acknowledgements
Notes
Suggested Reading
Index
In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, “James’s entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life”—and that’s why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is an absorbing introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.
9780691216713
Pragmatism
Modern western philosophy
191 / KAA
Sick souls, healthy minds: how William James can save your life - Princeton Princeton University Press 2020 - 210 p.
Table of Contents:
Prologue: "A Disgust for Life"
1. Determinism and Despair
2. Freedom and Life
3. Psychology and the Healthy Mind
4. Consciousness and Transcendence
5. Truth and Consequences
6. Wonder and Hope
Acknowledgements
Notes
Suggested Reading
Index
In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled “Is Life Worth Living?” It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier. Indeed, as John Kaag writes, “James’s entire philosophy, from beginning to end, was geared to save a life, his life”—and that’s why it just might be able to save yours, too. Sick Souls, Healthy Minds is an absorbing introduction to James’s life and thought that shows why the founder of pragmatism and empirical psychology can still speak so directly and profoundly to anyone struggling to make a life worth living.
9780691216713
Pragmatism
Modern western philosophy
191 / KAA