Thursday, December 11, 2014

Pluralism and openness

And Robert Bellas religion in human evolution he has a footnote to William James the principles of psychology in James's classic introduction to religious experience he speaks of multiple realities and worlds interchangeably. Alfred Schutz, reinterprets James suggesting that were James is concerned with mental realities and subjectivity,  Shutz' approach is phenomenological and intersubjective." James is concerned with mental realities, Shutz with realities that are also cultural. In general, however, James's insistence on pluralism was as much ontological as it was psychological. Let's footnotes 7, Page 612 to 613.

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