Thursday, October 21, 2010

William James on Feeling and Action

"Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not."

-William James

This isn't exactly a video on William James, but does examine briefly the importance of American Pragmatism, of which James was a key thinker.

 

Primary Source: Pragmatism by William James

Secondary Source: William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism by Robert D. Richardson

 

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