By Phil Oliver
ISBN-10: 058540772X
ISBN-13: 9780585407722
ISBN-10: 0826513662
ISBN-13: 9780826513663
This enterprising publication, written within the spirit of William James, urges our appreciation of the intensely own personality of non secular transcendence. Phil Oliver's paintings has very important implications for experts all for the Jamesian inspiration of "pure experience," and it illuminates major interdisciplinary ties between philosophy, literature, and different highbrow domain names.
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So long as he and we persist in representing mental life and subjectivity generally as more intimately identified with the self that acts, or the whole person, than with the brain either in isolation or in mysterious contact with ‘nether-regions, then any account of how a person may sometimes act freely even though his acts are produced by brain events and “bodily happenings” must take seriously the subjective experience of free will. This is not finally negotiable. As a practical matter for James, free will is not a “problem” but a datum.
What is this “nature,” for James, that undergirds experience in its endless and unpredictable variety? Is it something essential and fixed? Can we even pose such a question without insinuating an unwarranted and unpragmatic essentialism? Is there a nature at all, or do we experience natures, which we gather together under an abstract concept or metaphor that we then hypostatize and exalt as Nature? These are the right kinds of nominalistic questions for a Jamesian to ask. We should not essentialize nature in any sense that implies arrest or finality, these being intrinsically counter-evolutionary states.
Sitting up involuntarily and taking a kneeling position, I was thrown down on my face. The room was shaken like a rat by a terrier . . [My] emotion consisted wholly of glee . . at the vividness which such an abstract idea or verbal term as “earthquake” could put on when translated into sensible reality and verified concretely. . I felt no trace whatever of fear; it was pure delight . . James described his total quake experience as “mind-enlarging,” reporting in the quake’s aftermath a sense of cheerful solidarity among the survivors, “a kind of uplift in the sense of a ‘common lot’ that took away the sense of loneliness that (I imagine) gives the sharpest edge to the more usual kind of misfortune.
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