James yearned to weave science and religion into a popular
philosophy useful for the everyday life of everyday people of
faith. He saw that many were defenseless in an increasingly
agnostic, even atheistic culture. "Thousands of innocent magazine
readers lie paralyzed and terrified in the network of shallow
negations which the leaders of opinion have thrown over their
souls," he wrote in 1882. To which he added, "If I, . . . like the
mouse in the fable, have gnawed a few of the strings of the
sophistical net that has been binding down the human heart's] lion
strength, I shall be more than rewarded for my pains."
Were he to return, he would still be unhappy with the leaders of
opinion but also with the responses of those who seek refuge in
fundamentalist reliance on religious scriptures or who claim that
religion is independent of modern 'scientific' discoveries.
Building on William James on Common Sense and William James on
the Stream of Consciousness, this third and final volume will show
how James in 2009 might weave ancient truths and modern discoveries
into a philosophy that would even more completely reward him for
his pains.
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