Persuasive whispers something in us. A loving closeness invites us to become intimate. lover-navigator: Excites one ear, then, sonar, navigation method, a philosophy as a way to privacy is invented. Two sensitivities, monistic and pluralistic, discuss their preferences about love and navigation; Whisper the costs of your skin and depth; and the certainty of an intimate encounter.
William James, philosopher worlds, defends the thesis pluralistic confronting here with the monistic way. Moves the crux of the problem; insubordinate and the concept map: No longer respond to the request of a speculative order but of a practical necessity: the difference between sight of land, wrecked or never ever set sail; the difference between intimate or not.
The problem with the monistic way is that has put privacy in the eternal All of all, so far from our finite parts that leaves delivered us to the same infamous chastity in which it was under monarchical theism. - "Intimemos with the Absolute," says monistic. As if we could, thinking and behavior! We are invincibly parts, whatever we say, and we must grasp the absolute as a stranger.
This series of lectures by James in 1909 at Manchester College, include at least three important moments: the chapter devoted to methodological problem we anchor the Hegelian ballast; the review marveling that makes the genius Gustav Fechner and his hallucinated pantheism; and especially the conference on Henri Bergson, who writes with the most delicate words for a philosophy of experience: turn their faces to the feeling, that thing wrapped in meat that rationalism has always filled with insults.
Finally, closer to the intimacy of the flesh and its parts, announced in its findings of studies open the way to pluralism: descriptive psychology, religious phenomena, panpsychism and other beasts of the desert philosophical.