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Introduction | p. xi |
Purpose of this Work | p. xi |
Personal Note | p. xiv |
List of Abbreviations | p. xvii |
William James | |
Meaning and Truth | p. 3 |
Pragmatism | p. 3 |
Radical Empiricism | p. 5 |
Body and Mind | p. 11 |
Materialism versus Dualism | p. 11 |
Neither Dualism nor Materialism | p. 13 |
A Radical Empiricist View of Mind and Body | p. 19 |
Free Will | p. 21 |
Psychology and the Subjective Experience of Free Will | p. 21 |
Indeterminism and the Physical Possibility of Free Will | p. 24 |
A Late Twentieth-Century Adaptation of James's Concept of Free Will | p. 26 |
William James and Moral Philosophy | p. 31 |
The Task of the Moral Philosopher | p. 31 |
James's Moral Ideals | p. 37 |
The Adequacy of James's Theory | p. 40 |
Rationality and Religious Faith | p. 41 |
Faith in the Salvation of the World | p. 42 |
The Meaning of Rationality | p. 44 |
The Reasonableness of Theism | p. 46 |
William James's Personal Faith | p. 49 |
Human Immortality | p. 51 |
Human Nature and the Life of the Spirit | p. 55 |
Spirituality Defined and Placed in a Metaphysical Context | p. 56 |
Naturalism and Spirituality | p. 58 |
The How and Why of Spirituality | p. 59 |
A Worldview Compatible with Spirit | p. 61 |
Josiah Royce | |
The Idealism of Josiah Royce | p. 67 |
Ideas and Reality | p. 68 |
The First and Second Conceptions of Being: Realism and Mysticism | p. 71 |
The Third Conception of Being: Critical Rationalism | p. 73 |
The Fourth Conception of Being: Royce's Idealism | p. 75 |
Josiah Royce's Concept of the Self | p. 81 |
The Ambiguity of the Self | p. 81 |
The Self as an Ethical Category | p. 83 |
Individual and the Whole | p. 85 |
Josiah Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty as the Basis for Ethics | p. 89 |
Royce's Idea of Loyalty | p. 89 |
The American Problem | p. 91 |
The Contemporary Problem | p. 92 |
The Practicality of Roycean Loyalty | p. 93 |
Ethics and the Full-Breasted Richness of Life | p. 96 |
The Religious Insights of Josiah Royce | p. 103 |
Individual Experience | p. 105 |
Social Experience | p. 106 |
Reason | p. 107 |
Will | p. 109 |
Loyalty | p. 110 |
Sorrow | p. 111 |
Unify of the Spirit | p. 113 |
What James Missed | p. 114 |
Charles Sanders Peirce | |
Peirce and the Origin of Pragmatism | p. 119 |
Peirce's Pragmatism | p. 121 |
Peirce's Critique of Nominalistic Pragmatism | p. 124 |
Charles Sanders Peirce on the Human Person | p. 127 |
Peirce's Critique of the Separated Self | p. 127 |
The Illusory Self and the Authentic Self | p. 131 |
Ethics and the Purpose of Human Life | p. 133 |
Reasons for the Incompatibility of Practical and Theoretical Ethics | p. 133 |
The Place of Ethics in Peirce's Architectonic | p. 137 |
Love and Evolution | p. 141 |
Deriving a Virtue Ethic from Peirce's Theoretical Ethics | p. 145 |
Continuity of Practical and Theoretical Ethics | p. 148 |
Conclusion | p. 149 |
Notes | p. 153 |
Bibliography | p. 161 |
Index | p. 165 |
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