Ep. 345: William James on Religious Experience (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
On The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), focusing on lectures 1-3 and 20. What is religion and how should philosophers study it?
James describes it as a sincere, full-life reaction to the world, more emotional than intellectual, and conveys the experiences of the extreme "religious geniuses" that are merely received second or third hand by the believing masses.
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| 0:00.0 | Learn about the big books in continental philosophy with my new fall class. |
| 0:04.6 | Please visit partially examine life. podcast by some guys where at one point |
| 0:20.3 | said on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. |
| 0:23.7 | Our questions for episode 345 are something like, what is religion and how should philosophers |
| 0:29.4 | study it? |
| 0:30.7 | We read William James the Varieties of Religious Experience in |
| 0:34.2 | 1902 lectures one two three and twenty more information about this book in the |
| 0:39.6 | podcast please see partially examined life.com. This is Mark |
| 0:43.4 | Linsenmeyer with the bugaboo of morbid origin still |
| 0:46.7 | scandalizing my piety in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 0:49.7 | This is Seth Paskin, able to afford to overlook the innumerable failures and self-deceptions in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:58.0 | This is Wes Allwen, ready to get Sthenic, |
| 1:02.0 | S-T-H-E-N-I-C in Cambridge, Massachusetts. to get St. |
| 1:05.0 | Thhenicic in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:06.0 | Are we ready to get Sthenic? |
| 1:09.0 | Wes is the hype man for this episode. |
| 1:12.0 | And this is Dylan Casey denying that exceptional and eccentric only apply to those who pursue a religious life in Muskegan, Michigan. |
| 1:20.0 | Traveling man. |
| 1:21.0 | This has been on our list for a long damn time and I had read it. |
| 1:26.0 | I signed up for Stephen Phillips, one of our past guests, his philosophy of religion course in grad school, |
| 1:31.0 | and this was what was on the syllabus for the first week. |
| 1:35.0 | I read this on my own and I dropped out of the class because I felt like I just |
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