Hi John, John: > William James was no atheist. You'll have to suffer some variety of > religious expression occasionaly if you're gonna make him your guy.
Steve: I agree. While there are some interesting similarities between Pirsig and James, at some point DMB will have to put his secularism up against James's "The Will to Believe" and see what wins. I'd be interested to hear his thoughts on the article as a secularist and a Jamesian. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~omearawm/ph101willtobelieve.html Also, from his 1907 Pragmatism lectures: "On pragmatic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, then it is 'true.' " Best, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
