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This 8 page report discusses William James (1842-1910) and his attempt to create and/or
follow a path that would lead between a rationalistic order that was not empirical enough and an
empirical system so fundamentally materialistic that it was not possible that it could actually
account for the value covenants on which it rested. Other writers dealing with most fundamental
aspects of existence -- W.E.B. Du Bois, Simone de Beauvoir, and John Rawls -- wrote about
what was essentially their version of the same process. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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actually account for the value covenants on which it rested. Other writers dealing with most fundamental aspects of existence -- W.E.B. Du Bois, Simone de Beauvoir, and John Rawls --
wrote about what was essentially their version of the same process. Bibliography lists 8 sources. BWdichwj.wps The Dichotomy of William James (and
Others) for - May 2001 -- for more information on using this paper properly! William James Pragmatism
and Dichotomy Early in his writing, William James (1842-1910) stated in "Rationality, Activity, and Faith" (1882) that the fundamental question of life is whether existence takes place in a moral
or an unmoral universe. It is important to understand that he is talking about unmoral, not immoral. Proudfoot (2000) explains that "James is not asking whether the universe is good
or bad, but whether it is coordinate with the inner lives of persons, their desires, and their purposes" (pp. 51). It is also worth noting that James is not restricting
the use of the concept of "moral" to ethics but is instead the sense in which "moral" sciences (what is now most commonly-referred to as the humanities and social sciences)
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/or follow a path that would lead between a rationalistic
order that was not empirical enough and an empirical system so fundamentally materialistic that it was not possible that it could actually account for the value covenants on which it
rested. Baggett (2000) also explains that: "In arguing against both the absolutists (gnostics) and the empiricists (agnostics), he [James] defined a position of pluralistic moralism that seemed equally distant from
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