Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
An elaborate preface to a philosophic work usually impresses one as a last desperate effort on the part of its author to convey what he feels he has not quite managed to say in the body of his book. Nevertheless, a collection of essays on various topics written during a series...
An elaborate preface to a philosophic work usually impresses one as a last desperate effort on the part of its author to convey what he feels he has not quite managed to say in...
2. Part 2Darwin concluded that the impossibility of assigning the world to chance as a whole and to design in its parts indicated the insolubility of the question. Two radically differen...
3. Part 3_Arthur._ I find myself in a peculiar position in respect to this discussion. An analysis of what is involved in this peculiarity may throw some light on the points at issue, fo...
4. Part 4There is likewise a profound saying of Aristotle’s that the individual who otherwise than by accident is not a member of a state is either a brute or a god. But it is generally...
5. Part 5The effort to force a universal reason that had been used to the broad domains of the cosmos into the cramped confines of individuality conceived as merely “empirical,” a highly...
6. Part 6Here we have a cognitive, but not a cognitional thing. In saying that the smell is finally experienced as _meaning_ gratification (through intervening handling, seeing, etc.) an...
7. Part 7Putting the matter in terms that are independent of history, experiences of failure, disappointment, non-fulfilment of the function of meaning and contention may lead the indivi...
8. Part 8On the one hand there is a systematic discrediting of the ultimate claims of the knowledge function, and this not from external physiological or psychological reasons such as ar...
9. Part 9It would advance the state of discussion, I am sure, if there were more explicit statements regarding the relations of “true idea,” “truth,” “the criterion of truth” and “realit...
10. Part 10_Teacher: Reply._ Your objection combines and confuses two things. To disentangle them is to answer the objection. (1) The notion of transcendence has a double meaning; first, i...
11. Part 11But can we claim more than a _succès d’estime_? Consider again the nature of the effort. The world of immediate meanings, of the world empirically sustained in beliefs, is to be...
12. Part 12In concluding, I want to say a word or two to mitigate--for escape is impossible--some misunderstandings. And, to begin with, while possible doubts inevitably troop with actual...
13. Part 13The categories of accomplished systematization cover alike the just and the unjust, the false and the true, while (unlike God’s rain) they exercise no _specific_ or _differentia...
14. Part 14The material point may come out more clearly if I say that we must make a distinction between a thing as _cognitive_, and one as _cognized_.[50] I should define a cognitive expe...
15. Part 15The psychologist begins with certain operations, acts, functions as his data. If these fall out of sight in the course of discussion, it is only because having been taken for gr...
16. Part 16[NOTE: I have let this paper stand much as written, though now conscious that much more is crowded into it than could properly be presented in one paper. The drift of the ten ye...
17. Part 17Hence the conception of progress as a ruling idea; the conception of the individual as the source and standard of rights; and the problem of knowledge, were all born together. G...
18. Part 18Good, is concrete and plural, 15-17, 23, 27; of Nature, _Essay II._, 20-45; and evolution, 31-35, 43; and mysticism, 39, 42; Greek view of, 46-50; medieval view of, 52-54; as fi...
19. Part 19[49] I say “relatively,” because the transcendentalist still holds that finally the cognition is imperfect, giving us only some symbol or phenomenon of Reality (which _is_ only...