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RE-READING ‘THE WILL TO BELIEVE’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1997

LUDWIG F. SCHLECHT
LUDWIG F. SCHLECHT
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania 18104
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John Hick offers a summary account of William James's ‘The Will to Believe’ which is typical of the way that this essay has been understood by many in the one hundred years since it was first published. According to Hick, James argues

that the existence or nonexistence of God, of which there can be no conclusive evidence either way, is a matter of such momentous importance that anyone who so desires has the right to stake one's life upon the God hypothesis.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 217 - 225
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1997 Cambridge University Press