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Of all the non-European philosophers, William James probably best deserves to be labeled an Existentialist. Indeed, at this date, we may very well wonder whether it would be more accurate to call James an Existentialist than a Pragmatist. --William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
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existentialism and William Jamesdied Aug. 26, 1910, Chocorua, New Hampshire
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results. --William James |
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William James (1842-1910). James was an American philosopher and psychologist, who developed the philosophy of pragmatism. James was born in New York City. His father, Henry James, Sr., was a theologian; one of his brothers was novelist Henry James. William James attended private schools in the United States and Europe, the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard University, and the Harvard Medical School, from which he received a degree in 1869. He later taught at Harvard. Before finishing his medical studies, James went on an exploratory expedition in Brazil with Swiss-American naturalist Louis Agassiz and also studied physiology in Germany. |
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