A Pluralistic Universe · William James
CHESTERTON, 203, 303.
Compounding of mental states, 168, 173, 186 f., 268, 281, 284, 292, 296. Concepts, 217, 234 f. Conceptual method, 243 f., 246, 253. Concrete reality, 283, 286. Confluence, 326. Conflux, 257. Consciousness, superhuman, 156, 310 f.; its compound nature, 168, 173, 186 f., 289. Continuity, 256 f., 325. Contradiction, in Hegel, 89 f. Creation, 29, 119. Death, 303. Degrees, 74. Dialectic method, 89. Difference, 257 f. Diminutive epithets, 12, 24. Discreteness of change, 231. 'Each-form,' the, 34, 325. Earth, the, in Fechner's philosophy, 156; is an angel, 164. Earth-soul, 152 f. Elan vital, 262. Empiricism, 264, 277; and religion, 314; defined, 7. Endosmosis, 257. Epithets. See Diminutive. Evil, 310. Experience, 312; religious, 307. Extremes, 67, 74. 'Faith-ladder,' 328. 'Fall,' the, 119, 310. FECHNER, Lecture IV, _passim._ His life, 145-150; he reasons by analogy, 151; his genius, 154; compared with Royce, 173, 207; not a genuine monist, 293; his God; and religious experience, 308. FERRIER, Jas., 13. Finite experience, 39, 48, 182, 192-193. Finiteness, of God, 111, 124, 294. Foreignness, 31. German manner of philosophizing, 17. GOD, 24 f., 111, 124, 193, 240, 294. HEGEL, Lecture III, _passim_, 11, 85, 207, 211, 219, 296. His vision, 88, 98 f., 104; his use of double negation, 102; his vicious intellectualism 106; Haldane on, 138; McTaggart on, 140; Royce on, 143. Horse, 265.
Idealism, 36. See Absolutism. Identity, 93. Immortality, Fechner's view of, 171. 'Independent' beings, 55, 58. Indeterminism, 77. Infinity, 229. Influence, 258, 561. Intellect, its function is practical, 247 f., 252. Intellectualism, vicious, 60, 218. Intellectualist logic, 216, 259, 261. Intellectualist method, 291. Interaction, 56. Intimacy, 31. Irrationality, 81; of the absolute, 117-129. Life, 523. Log, 323. Logic, 92, 211; Intellectualist, 217, 242. McTAGGART, 51, 74 f., 120, 140 f., 183. Manyness in oneness, 322. See Compounding. Mental chemistry, 185. Mind, dust theory, 189. Mind, the eternal, 137. See Absolute. Monism, 36, 117, 125, 201, 313, 321 f.; Fechner's, 153. See Absolutism. Monomaniacs, 78. Motion, 233, 238, 254; Zeno on, 228. Nature, 21, 286. Negation, 93 f.; double, 102. Newton, 260. Other, 95, 312; 'its own other,' 108 f., 282. Oxford, _3_, 313, 331. Pantheism, 24, 28. Personality, divided, 298. Philosophers, their method, 9; their common desire, 11 f.; they must reason, 13. Philosophies, their types, 23, 31. Plant-soul, 165 f. Pluralism, 45, 76, 79, 311, 319, 321 f. Polytheism, 310. Practical reason, 329. Psychic synthesis, 185. See Compounding. Psychical research, 299. 'Quâ,' 39, 47, 267, 270. 'Quatenus,' 47, 267. Rationalism defined, 7, 98; its thinness, 144, 237. Rationality, 81, 112 f., 319 f. Reality, 262 f., 264, 283 f. Reason, 286, 312. Relating, 7. Relations, 70, 278 ff.; 'external,' 80.
Religious experiences, 305 f. ROYCE, 61 f., 115, 173, 182 f., 197, 207, 212, 265, 296. Same, 269, 281. Savage philosophy, 21. Science, 145. Sensations, 279. Socialism, 78. Soul, 199, 209. 'Some,' 79. Sphinx, 22. Spiritualistic philosophy, 23. Sugar, 220, 232. Synthesis, psychic. See Compounding. Theism, 24. Thick, the, 136. 'Thickness' of Fechner's philosophy, 144. Thin, the, 136. Thinness of the current transcendentalism, 144, 174 f. Time, 232. Units of reality, 287. Vision, in philosophy, 20. Will to believe, 328. Witnesses, as implied in experience, 200.
Ideas discussed in this chapter
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