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THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE By William James
It is both as philosopher and exerimental psychologist that William James approached the study 70 religious phenomena.
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LECTURE I PAGE
RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY E 3
Introduction: the course is not anthropological, but deals with personal documents—Questions of fact and questions of value—In point of fact, the religious are often neurotic—Criticism of medical materialism, which condemns religion on that account—Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted—All states of mind are neurally conditioned—Their significance must be tested not by their origin but by the value of their fruits —Three criteria of value; origin useless as a criterion— Advantages of the psychopathic temperament when a superior intellect goes with it—especially for the religious life.
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