The Varieties Of Religious Experience

RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY 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.

• | Author: William James
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 454 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 154507786X
• | ISBN-13: 9781545077863