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The Will To Believe: James Defends Freely Embraced Faith
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In The Will to Believe, James defends freely embraced faith. He defends it because many people, who have been taught to be "logical", refuses to understand how he can have faith in religion. He starts by defining some essential concepts. He defines a hypothesis as anything that may be presented to ....
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....r fact. Here, he differentiates between intellect and emotions in our beliefs. James uses Pascal’s wager as an example. He explains that Pascal’s wager urges us that if we go to masses, take holy water, or act as if we believe in Christianity, we may come to believe in it or that faith will eventually come to us. He plainly disagrees with Pascal because as he said before, we cannot, just by willing ourselves to believe in God, have faith. True belief and true faith will never come that way. Jame.... |
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