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The Doctrine Of Experience In The Philosophy Of Jonathan Edwards, Puritan Divine, Joseph S. Trachtenberg

Dissertations and Theses

A number of basic themes suggest themselves as focal points for a study of the thought of Jonathan Edwards. The dissertation is an attempt to argue that experience is one of them, and that an attentive eye to the doctrine of experience will reveal it as the unifying theme of his philosophy. Specifically, at the center of Edwards' aesthetic and religious vision there lies a rich and profound sense of experience, and of the relation of all things to some form of perception.

The evidence is to be found in Edwards' extensive published and unpublished writings. Among the several editions …

"Like Some Forgotten Door" (...Into The Realm Of Psychic Of Phenomena), Mary Ellen Moylan

Student Scholarship

The paper titled Like Some Forgotten Door explores the intersection of ancient Chinese wisdom and modern psychic research to understand the nature of human consciousness and existence. It begins with a detailed examination of the I Ching, or Book of Changes, which serves as a guide to human relations and universal transformations. This ancient text utilizes sixty-four hexagrams and the dual principles of yang and yin to represent the constant state of flux in nature, man, and the mind. The author suggests that by meditating on these symbols, individuals can achieve a sagely personhood and a deeper understanding of the …

Habit And Meaning In Peirce's Pragmatism, Gary Shapiro

Philosophy Faculty Publications

The pragmatic movement has often been misunderstood; the most frequent misconceptions, which assimilated the philosophies of Peirce and James in particular to forms of positivism, reductionism, or crude voluntarism seem to be on the wane. Peirce's scholastic realism, his doctrine of signs, and his conception of truth as the unique and destined goal of inquiry now tend to receive the attention that was formerly reserved for his empiricism and pragmatism. A similar change in the estimation of James seems to be taking place insofar as his theory of truth is seen as much less simplistic than was formerly supposed; and …