William JamesBuilding on an emic conception of the self that William James articulated in his seminal chapter on the "Consciousness of Self" (1890/1950), this article defines the self as an object that the individual takes to be him- or herself. This object, which is subjectively identified ...
Hart's (1988) discussion of self-understanding (SU) is rooted in W. James's multidimensional self theory (1890, 1892). Their book reports empirical research that is always preceded and followed by elaborate theoretical discussion in which developmental theory with respect to SU serves as a ...
Humanistic psychologists drew on the work of William James, and on the synthetic approach to the self and psyche that he described as "radical empiricism... JL Grogan - The University of Texas at Austin. 被引量: 0发表: 2008年 Towards new understandings of silence To Jesuit theologian, Will...
Drawing on James (1902), I show how in his later work, James develops a theory of embodied emotions that anticipates the role ascribed by twentieth century phenomenology to anxiety and other 'bad moods', as possibilities for philosophical reflection and self-understanding. 展开 ...
5. “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.”–William James 6. “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”–William James 7. “There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true self....
Rather I have been saying that James's discussion of religious experiences such as healthy-minded, sick-souled, melancholy, conversion, and mysticism provide analogues for better understanding the phenomenological processes and characteristics of the drive for meaning and integration which Fingarette ...
James Evans, Michael Wulf Friedlander Professor Emeritus of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Author of Astronomy: From Stonehenge to Quasars, A Thin Cosmic Rain, and others. Michael Wulf FriedlanderAll Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britann...
Mark Twain, William James, and the funding of freedom in Joan of Arc. Explores Mark Twain's unusual style in writing his `Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.' Joan as Twain's exemplary model of independent thought; Use of William James' theory of truth in understanding Twain's ...
The 19th-century philosopher William James provided a pragmatic argument for God's existence. Learn about the meaning of pragmatism, compare James' beliefs to those of W.K. Clifford, and explore James' view that faith in God was a type of risk management. ...
Even at a very early age, Jones demonstrated his multi-linguistic skills. He would develop into a hyperpolygot, someone possessing fluent understanding of more than six languages. Eventually, Jones would know 28 languages and was self-taught in several. ...