Lecture I, Religion and Neurology
Famous attack on medical materialism that dismisses St. Paul by his epilepsy or St. Teresa by her hysteria.
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From The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James
James insists religious experiences must be judged by their fruits in life, not by their psychological or physiological origins; coined critique of "medical materialism."
Lectures XIV-XV
Applies the fruits test to saintliness, defending it against Nietzschean critique.
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