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THE MUTUAL INFLUENCE AND CONVERGENCE OF WILLIAM JAMES & SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S PHILOSOPHIES OF RELIGION
2024
Overview
This essay examines the cross-cultural philosophical exchange between Swami Vivekananda and William James beginning with their interactions in the summer of 1896. It explores the initial divergence between Vivekananda's Vedantic Monism and James's pragmatic pluralism, despite their shared values such as the importance of pragmatic verification, the validity of mystical experiences, fideism, and panpsychism. Nevertheless, by the end of their lives both philosophers developed more compatible views. This convergence will be explained through the work of Henry Samuel Levinson and Swami Medhananda, who illustrate how each thinker, in their maturity, embraced a more inclusive view that transcends traditional dualities. Ultimately, James’s pantheistic pluralism and Vivekananda’s pantheistic cosmopsychism blur the theoretical distinctions between their mature philosophies. It concludes by discussing the convergence of James's and Vivekananda's later works towards similar spiritual inquiries, suggesting that their paths, while initially parallel, rapidly converge into a shared vision of spiritual and philosophical inquiry. Furthermore, this essay also contextualizes this affinity between Vivekananda and James within the broader story of Indian philosophy on American pragmatism beyond James and Vivekananda. By noting the influence of Vedānta on earlier thinkers, like Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman, as well as Vivekananda’s influence on James, a richer tapestry of the multicultural influences on Classical Pragmatism emerges.
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William James Society
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