《实用主义与其他著作》共分为六个部分:实用主义(1907);选自真理的意义;选自心理学:简明教程(1892);选自相信和大众哲学的其他论文;选自与心理学教师的谈话:对学生生活的一些理想;在拉尔夫瓦尔多爱默生百年诞辰上的演说(1903)。
《实用主义》收集了作者196年在美国波士顿罗威尔研究所和197年在纽约哥伦比亚大学发表的八篇讲稿,此外,还收集了另外四篇论文。实用主义是美国土壤里生出的、影响最大的哲学注派,是代表美国人精神和生活方式的官方哲学。
实用主义(1907)
前言
第一讲 哲学的困境
第二讲 实用主义的意义
第三讲 用实用主义来考虑几个形而上学的问题
第四讲 一和多
第五讲 实用主义和常识
第六讲 实用主义的真理观
第七讲 实用主义和人本主义
第八讲 实用主义和宗教
选自真理的意义
前言
印度虎
人文主义和真理
选自心理学:简明教程(1892)
意识流
选自相信和大众哲学的其他论文
前言
相信
现存的生活价值
道德哲学家和道德生活
选自与心理学教师的谈话:对学生生活的一些理想
2论人的某种盲目性
3什么使人生意义重大
杂文
在拉尔夫瓦尔多爱默生百年诞辰上的演说(1903)
一个纯粹经验的世界(1904)
是彻底的激进经验主义唯我论?(1905)
注释
《实用主义与其他著作》:
Of course, if you take the satisfactoriness concretely, as something felt by you now, and if,by trurh, you mean truth taken abstractly and verified in the long run, you cannot make them equate,for it is notorious that the temporarily satisfactory is often false.Yet at each and every concrete moment, truth for each man is what that man 'troweth' at that moment with the maximum of satisfaction to himself; and similarly, abstract truth, truth verified by the long run, and abstract satisfactoriness, long—run satisfactoriness, coincide.If,in short, we compare concrete with concrete and abstract with abstract, the true and the satisfactory do mean the same thing.I suspect that a certain muddling of myatters hereabouts is what makes the general philosophic public so impervious to humanism's claims.
The fundamental fact about our experience is that it is a process of change.For the 'trower' at any moment, truth, like the visible area round a man walking in a fog, or like what George Eliot calls 'the wall of dark seen by small fishes' eyes that pierce a span in the wide Ocean,' is an objective field which the next moment enlarges and of which it is the critic, and which then either suffers alteration or is continued unchanged.
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