Ep. 345: William James on Religious Experience (Part Three for Supporters/Closereads Part One) (opens in new tab)

Sign up for Closereads at patreon.com/closereadsphilosophy to get future parts on this reading, as well as our previous and future installments of this podcast. On "The Varieties of Religious Experience," the conclusion of lecture 15 on asceticism and saints. Why do some saintly types engage in ascetic practices like voluntary poverty? James thinks we could all do with some self-discipline of this sort, as extreme as the examples of literary saints may be. Self-denial is a less destructive wa...