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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
There, there. It will be alright. There will be other free audiobooks from somewhere else posted before long.  |
That almost sounded like a cue. LearnOutLoud has updated their free audiobook for the month. This month it is "The Will to Believe" by William James.
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Psychologist William James now stands as one of the true intellectual titans to come out of late 19th century America. With "The Will to Believe", first published in 1896, he argues that it is defendable to adopt a certain belief without prior evidence of its truth. Taking religious belief as his primary example, James claims that even scientific inquiry is oftentimes undertaken with a belief that a given experiment will bear out a hypothesis. In this way, he goes on to argue that human beings have an innate religious intuition which has led to a belief in God even before the truth of God's existence can be proven. With a deeply probing mind, James illustrates with this lecture why he was one of the leading lights in an era that was just coming to grips with the scientific breakthroughs that would flourish in the 20th century.
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The free audiobook of the month is, well, free for the rest of the month (and even a day or two after, as they can be a little slow in updating). Until then, you can get it
here.
Enjoy!
skinmaan
Your audiobook bloodhound
PS - The end of Sync is my regular time to take stock of my back reading/listening. Only 2,000+ hours to go! Maybe I should be glad for fewer freebies.