 | Don S. Browning - Philosophy - 1980 - 288 pages
...deterrent element, does but add to the stern joy with which it leaps to answer to the greater.4' . . . For this reason, the strenuous type of character will...history always outwear the easygoing type . . . and prove victorious in the end.44 Identity and the Function of Religion Ethics and the moral life may... | |
 | James T. Kloppenberg - Political Science - 1988 - 557 pages
...but James was less reluctant to proclaim the attractiveness of faith for pragmatic moral purposes: "The strenuous type of character will on the battle-field...type, and religion will drive irreligion to the wall." James offered as his final conclusion that "the stable and systematic moral universe for which the... | |
 | Gerald Eugene Myers - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 666 pages
...one direction becomes such a "miraculous achievement" that anyone less than God is incapable of it. It would seem, too, — and this is my final conclusion,...universe for which the ethical philosopher asks is fully possible only in a world where there is a divine thinker with all-enveloping demands. If such... | |
 | Cornel West - Philosophy - 1989 - 292 pages
...joyously face tragedy for an infinite demander's sake. Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in...easy-going type, and religion will drive irreligion to the wall.70 Santayana indeed is insightful when he writes that James "did not really believe; he merely... | |
 | Charlene Haddock Seigfried - Philosophy - 1990 - 454 pages
...rampant suffering and evil that is daily brought to our attention. In the same fifth section he says: "It would seem, too — and this is my final conclusion...universe for which the ethical philosopher asks is fully possible only in a world where there is a divine thinker with all-enveloping demands" (WB, 161).... | |
 | John Hedley Brooke - Religion - 1991 - 450 pages
...was the religious who were best fitted to survive: Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in...easy-going type, and religion will drive irreligion to the wall.10 How different from the common view that nineteenthcentury scientific naturalism had driven... | |
 | George M. Fredrickson - History - 1965 - 300 pages
...antagonism of the strenuous and genial moods. . . . Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith."35 This was clearly an invocation of the spirit of the abolitionists, and the reference to an... | |
 | George Cotkin - Philosophy - 1994 - 236 pages
...existence its keenest possibilities of zest. . . . Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith." The empowered individual, walking with confidence in God's presence and following the Jamesian ethical... | |
 | Ruth Anna Putnam - Philosophy - 1997 - 430 pages
...Kant, suggests that from the practical point of view, God may be postulated for the sake of morality: It would seem, too - and this is my final conclusion...universe for which the ethical philosopher asks is fully possible only in a world where there is a divine thinker with all-enveloping demands. ... In... | |
 | Sandra B. Rosenthal, Carl R. Hausman, Douglas R. Anderson - Philosophy - 1999 - 284 pages
...difficulties for the sake of attaining a higher good. "Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith" (WB, 161). James himself found such belief integral to his philosophical quest: "By being faithful... | |
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Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith. For this reason the strenuous type of character will on the battle-field of human history always outwear the easy-going... 
