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,
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