The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

152. Objections to chance considered, 153. Determinism

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involves pessimism, 159. Escape _via_ Subjectivism, 164. Subjectivism leads to corruption, 170. A world with chance in it is morally the less irrational alternative, 176. Chance not incompatible with an ultimate Providence, 180. THE MORAL PHILOSOPHER AND THE MORAL LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 The moral philosopher postulates a unified system, 185. Origin of moral judgments, 185. Goods and ills are created by judgment?, 189. Obligations are created by demands, 192. The conflict of ideals, 198. Its solution, 205. Impossibility of an abstract system of Ethics, 208. The easy-going and the strenuous mood, 211. Connection between Ethics and Religion, 212. GREAT MEN AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Solidarity of causes in the world, 216. The human mind abstracts in order to explain, 219. Different cycles of operation in Nature, 220. Darwin's distinction between causes that produce and causes that preserve a variation, 221. Physiological causes produce, the environment only adopts or preserves, great men,