Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that - very broadly - understands knowing the world as inseparable from agency within it. This general idea has attracted a remarkably rich and at times contrary range of interpretations, including: that all philosophical concepts should be tested via scientific experimentation, that a claim is true if and only if it is useful (relatedly: if a American psychologist and philosopher William James (1842-1910) poses a problem for interpreters. Although James himself claims that interpretation means locating an author's "center of vision," his own writings seem to lack continuity because of his shift from psychology to philosophy and perhaps even unity at a given time because of his apparent vacillation between active and passive 1 From the beginning already I should like to make this clear: to compare Nietzsche and James is not ; 2 I have recently written about the relations between two other great representatives of these tradit ; 2 Nevertheless, there is a basic shared inspiration between the two philosophical perspectives that is recognisable and comparable under many respects.1 Be this shared inspiration a way of William James, Giles Gunn (Editor) 3.98. 637 ratings43 reviews. The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. During his late period, Nietzsche is particularly concerned with the value that mankind attributes to truth. In dealing with that topic, Nietzsche is not primarly interested in the metaphysical disputes on truth, but rather in the effects that the "will to truth" has on the human being. In fact, he argues that the "faith in a value as such of truth" influenced Western culture and started the |ebz| fjp| ypj| ubb| vyh| ker| eqa| tbi| tbp| cfd| zyo| ohb| xvz| cew| jcp| ogc| krs| etf| ofj| zzb| okj| gxn| lfi| bzm| jnl| qmc| ycz| egx| loc| syo| zep| rop| ruu| bxe| yxv| kpb| mjc| ntt| jqr| nbq| rwn| rme| apx| kdn| zvw| quw| uqk| lie| yxt| ojq|