Título: Essays in Radical Empiricism
Autor: William James
Sinopse: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... DOES 'CONSCIOUSNESS' EXIST?1 'thoughts' and 'things' are names for two; sorts of object, which common sense will always find contrasted and will always practically oppose to each other. Philosophy, reflecting on the contrast, has varied in the past in her explanations of it, and may be expected to vary in the future. At first, 'spirit and matter, ' 'soul and body, ' stood for a pair of equipollent substances quite on a par in weight and interest. But one day Kant undermined the soul and brought in the tran- scendental ego, and ever since then the bipolar i relation has been very much off its balance. The transcendental ego seems nowadays in rationalist quarters to stand for everything, in empiricist quarters for almost nothing. In the hands of such writers as Schuppe, Kehmke, Natorp, Mtinsterberg -- at any rate in his 1 [Reprinted from the Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods, vol. i. No. 18, September 1, 1904. For the relation between this essay and those which follow, cf. below, pp. 53-54. Ed.] earlier writings, Schubert-Soldern and others, the spiritual principle attenuates itself to a thoroughly ghostly condition, being only a name for the fact thatthe 'cjontent' of experience is known. It losesj)ersonal form and activity -- these passing over to the content -- and becomes a bare Bewusstheit or Bewusstsein iiberhaupt, of which in its own right absolutely nothing can be said. I believe that 'consciousness, ' when once it has evaporated to this estate of pure diaphaneity, is on the point of disappearing altogether. It is the name of a nonentity, and has no right to a place among first principles. Those who still cling to it are clinging to a mere echo, the faint rumor left behind by the disappearing 'soul' upon the air
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Essays in Radical Empiricism”, de William James, publicado pela editora Amazon Digital Services, em 2011 e com 304 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Amazon Digital Services
Páginas: 304
Ano: 2011
Edição:
Linguagem: inglês
ISBN: 1230312021
ISBN13: 9781230312026
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