William James: His Humanism and Philosophy of Religion

A new philosophy of man and humanism

The theoretical basis for the new philosophy was laid by the American philosopher James Joseph Dagenais (1923-1981), who came to the conclusion that philosophical anthropology is not a science, but a domain unto itself, and that a philosophy of man can only come about as a joint undertaking of all sciences, in which the object of study must be man himself. The final explanation of man lies outs...

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

ترجمه، شرح و نقد رویکرد تحلیلی در فلسفه دین براساس کتاب: philosophy of religion ed. william j. wainwright oxford 2005

زبان دین ازاهمّ موضوعات الهیات و فلسفه دین است. مسئله زبان دین در الهیات، کلام، فلسفه دین و زبان دین ورزان، همواره ناظر و معطوف به متون مقدس ادیان می باشد، و از این روی در این پایان نامه کوشیده شده است که مسایل بنیادینِ زبان دین از رهگذر معرفی یکی از متون مربوط به فلسفه تحلیلی دین به صورت برجسته و نمایان گردد. در شرح متن تأکید بر مسئله زبان دین است که این موضوع از منظر دو فیلسوف بزرگِ قرن بیستم ؛ ...

Religious Experience and the Divisible Self: William James (and Frederic Myers) as Theorist(s) of Religion

Journal of the American Academy of Religion June 2003, Vol. 71, No. 2, pp. 303–326 © 2003 The American Academy of Religion Scholars have understood William James’s unattributed reference to a discovery made in 1886, which he described as “the most important step forward in psychology since [he had] been a student of that science,” as a reference to the British psychical researcher Frederic Myer...

William Henry: His Achievements and His Law

Henry is a well-known name to all students of physical chemistry. Despite physical handicaps resulting from a childhood accident, he went on to a brilliant career in chemistry and medicine. The extensive and careful measurements that he made of the solubility of gases have given us the law that carries his name. Not many are familiar with his work on the steam sterilization of fabrics and other...