Consequences of Lutheranism: James and Rorty on the Sacred

VIALE, CLAUDIO MARCELO

COGNITIO

PUC San Pablo

Lugar: San Pablo; Año: 2013 vol. 14 p. 273 - 290

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The primary object of this article is to analyze how William James and Richard Rorty conceive the sacred. The latter explicitly follows in his philosophy of religion a Jamesian path, which stresses the importance of privatizing religion. I will put forward two arguments against this interpretation: first, that James?s notion of self-surrender is incompatible with the Rortyan idea of privatization; second, that this notion of self-surrender has Lutheran roots in James?s Varieties of Religious Experience.