Agreeable Leading: William James as a Guide for LIfe

Richard P. Mullin

Feb 2023 · AllrOneofUs Publishing · AI-narrated by Mason (from Google)

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This book grapples with the question of free will, which the author supports versus a deterministic vision of the universe. Following William James, the author approaches the issue by applying pragmatic ideas tested in reality. In this school of thought, true ideas are judged by where they lead us. Unlike materialism, this view is open to a pluralistic universe. It includes a spiritual dimension, in which our consciousness exhibits a transmissive capacity, an ability to pick up inspiration outside itself. This approach serves as a guide to leading a richer life, in which we experience harmony with the world by means of "agreeable leading." Last, the author wishes this was a book he would have read when he was young, and he now invites you to do the same.

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Richard P. Mullin earned his PhD, in philosophy and taught philosophy at St. Bernard College in Cullman, Alabama for seven years and at Wheeling Jesuit University for thirty years. He also taught Business Ethics in the MBA program at Wheeling Jesuit. He has lectured in American philosophy in Slovenia and Slovakia and frequently read papers at the meetings of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. In The Soul of Classical American Philosophy: The Ethical and Spiritual Insights of William James, Josiah Royce, and Charles Sanders Pierce (SUNY Press2007), he portrays the governing ideas of the founders of American Pragmatism. Previous books from AllrOneofUs Publishing: Ethics and the Full-Breasted Richness of Life: A Roycean Approach to Nourishing the Good, and The Neglected Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Josiah Royce’s Christian Doctrine of Life as a Guide to Renewing Theology.

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