I conceive this to be the more strenuous type of emotion; but I have to admit that its inability to let loose quietistic raptures is a serious deficiency in the pluralistic philosophy which I profess.
Its claims in that way are unique, whereas its affinities with strenuousness are less emphatic than those of the pluralistic scheme.
The theory is best described as pluralistic realism.
And, as he added in another place, [Footnote: A Pluralistic Universe, p.
From this unutterable mystery, to which we have no right to attribute either a monistic or a pluralistic character, we may, I suppose, imagine to emerge a perpetual torrent of duality.
Art is the expression, through the medium of an individual temperament, of a beauty which is one of the primordial aspects of this pluralistic world.
He is also prepared to find a place in his pluralistic world for at least one quite personal and quite finite god.
But the undeniable fact that they exist is sufficient to prove that in spite of the pluralistic appearance of things, there is still enough unity available to prevent the Many from completely devouring the One.
While the popular cults in the civilized world have held somewhat pertinaciously to pluralistic views, there has been a general tendency in advanced circles everywhere toward a unitary conception of the government of the world.
If used for welfare purposes, it amounts to a recognition of the pluralistic character of Chinese society by the government, and the happy utilization of the family pattern.
The traditions of scholastic bureaucracy working in a pluralistic society have left the Chinese people largely independent of the routine functioning of government.
In a pluralistic society, such as China, command is largely superseded by negotiation, and the issuer of a command must be prepared for oblique thwarting.
In a word, without such spiritual continuity as theism alone seems able to ensure, it looks as if a pluralistic world were condemned to a Sisyphean task.
The pluralistic view, then, does not, apart from theism, make a unified world; a pluralistic universe is in fact a contradiction in terms.
Next to this come certain treatises written in prose and verse called the Upani.sads, which contain various sorts of philosophical thoughts mostly monistic or singularistic but also some pluralistic and dualistic ones.
But if you consider the pluralistic horn to be intrinsically irrational, self-contradictory, and absurd, I can now say no more in its defence.
I may contrast the monistic and pluralistic forms in question as the 'all-form' and the 'each-form.
The absolute itself is thus represented by absolutists as having a pluralistic object.
The monists themselves writhe like worms on the hook to escape pluralistic or at least dualistic language, but they cannot escape it.
Everything you can think of, however vast or inclusive, has on the pluralistic view a genuinely 'external' environment of some sort or amount.
The God of our popular Christianity is but one member of a pluralistic system.
If we give to the monistic subspecies the name of philosophy of the absolute, we may give that of radical empiricism to its pluralistic rival, and it may be well to distinguish them occasionally later by these names.
As compared with all these rationalizing pictures, the pluralistic empiricism which I profess offers but a sorry appearance.
I say, from all this is to be frankly pluralistic and assume that the superhuman consciousness, however vast it may be, has itself an external environment, and consequently is finite.
Years before we heard of a pluralistic universe De Gourmont was a pragmatist, though an idealist in his conception of the world as a personal picture.
But the illusion of individual freedom of will is the last illusion to be dissipated in this most deterministic of worlds and most pluralistic of universes.
It is a pluralistic world now, and lordly Intuition--a dangerous vocable--rules over mere mental processes.
The next post-card was written in acknowledgment of Professor Palmer's comments on "A Pluralistic Universe.
He is a powerful young writer, and is translating my "Pluralistic Universe.
For instance, my "God of things as they are," being part of a pluralistic system, is responsible for only such of them as he knows enough and has enough power to have accomplished.
This more pluralistic style of feeling seems to me both to allow of a warmer sort of loyalty to our past helpers, and to tally more exactly with the mixed condition in which we find the world as to its ideals.
I am sure that, be it in the end judged true or false, it is essential to the evolution of clearness in philosophic thought that someone should defend a pluralistic empiricism radically.
I mean the pluralisticor individualistic philosophy.
What I want to get at, and let no interruptions interfere, is (at last) my system of tychistic and pluralistic philosophy of pure experience.
And such polytheism implies a pluralistic view of the universe.
It is a pluralistic world just because the will of man is free, and predetermination is excluded.
Professor Giddings has been the first to make the sociological application: Folk-ways of every kind, including mores and themistes are the most stable syntheses of pluralistic behavior; yet they are not unchanging.
Also reprinted, with some omissions, as Appendix B, A Pluralistic Universe, pp.
Both these truth-claiming hypotheses are non-dualistic in the old mind-and-matter sense; but the one is monistic and the other pluralistic as to the world process itself.
Some humanists are non-dualists of this sort--I myself am one und zwar of the pluralistic brand.
Here, again, one gets a new Identitaetsphilosophie in pluralistic form.
Reprinted also as Appendix A in A Pluralistic Universe, pp.
Two years later Professor James published The Meaning of Truth and A Pluralistic Universe, and inserted in these volumes several of the articles which he had intended to use in the 'Essays in Radical Empiricism.
This essay is referred to in A Pluralistic Universe, p.
It is both one and many--let us adopt a sort ofpluralistic monism.
You see that pragmatism can be called religious, if you allow that religion can be pluralistic or merely melioristic in type.
Since we are bound to treat it as respectfully as noetic monism, until the facts shall have tipped the beam, we find that our pragmatism, tho originally nothing but a method, has forced us to be friendly to the pluralistic view.
Pragmatism, pending the final empirical ascertainment of just what the balance of union and disunion among things may be, must obviously range herself upon the pluralistic side.
Using our old terms of comparison, we may say that the absolutistic scheme appeals to the tender-minded while the pluralistic scheme appeals to the tough.
But pragmatism sees another way to be respected also, the pluralistic way of interpreting the poem.
Against this notion of the unity of origin of all there has always stood the pluralistic notion of an eternal self-existing many in the shape of atoms or even of spiritual units of some sort.
Many persons would refuse to call the pluralistic scheme religious at all.
But are there not superhuman forces also, such as religious men of the pluralistic type we have been considering have always believed in?
Noble enough is either way of reading the poem; but plainly the pluralistic way agrees with the pragmatic temper best, for it immediately suggests an infinitely larger number of the details of future experience to our mind.
For pluralistic pragmatism, truth grows up inside of all the finite experiences.
Pluralistic moralism simply makes their teeth chatter, it refrigerates the very heart within their breast.
I said in my fourth lecture that I believed the monistic-pluralistic alternative to be the deepest and most pregnant question that our minds can frame.
Would you say that, rather than be part and parcel of so fundamentally pluralistic and irrational a universe, you preferred to relapse into the slumber of nonentity from which you had been momentarily aroused by the tempter's voice?
Footnote: Lecture on Bergson and his anti- intellectualism, in A Pluralistic Universe.
The most noteworthy tributes paid by him to Bergson were those made in the Hibbert Lectures (A Pluralistic Universe), which James gave at Manchester College, Oxford, shortly after he and Bergson met in London.
Now the gospel of healthy-mindedness, as we have described it, casts its vote distinctly for this pluralistic view.
I think, in fact, that a final philosophy of religion will have to consider the pluralistic hypothesis more seriously than it has hitherto been willing to consider it.
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