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HUMANITAS 35 William James and the Moral WillWilliam James and the Moral WillJeff PoletMalone CollegeRichard Rorty has characterized William James as an aestheticironist whose orientation was away from philosophy and towardan artistic pose that addressed itself contemptuously towarddominant modes of discourse. In his view, James taught us whatit is like to live in a world without metaphysical comforts, onewhere our notions of truth were no longer operative or relevant,and one where our beliefs were judged purely in terms of Due to such interpretations, James has largely been con-sidered a figure whose writings leave little room for traditionalphilosophical thinking or religious For Rorty, the most im-portant category of thought is contingency, and any mode ofthinking (or believing) which attempts to supercede the contingentstate of affairs is necessarily guilty of us
to William James (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), where he sug- gests that James wanted to leave space for a privatized religious belief, as long as …
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