<p>Macmurray was perhaps the first major British philosopher to be influenced by Marx, or even to read him at all ... He tells how this happened in the autobiographical section of his Swarthmore Lecture The Search for Reality in Religion (1965). It is a record of his search for reality in religion, and since his life has been spent in teaching and studying philosophy, the search has been more than an attempt to satisfy an intellectual curiosity.</p>

The Structure of Religious Experience.

MacMurray, John

Religion & Spirituality

Shoe String Pr Inc

John Macmurray, one of the most brilliant of the younger English philosophers, sets forth his conception of a religion which he believes can save the world from chaos. He regards religion as having its springs in the relations between human individuals, and thinks that a religion that is not concerned with inherent social questions is no religion at all, or rather, it is a religion that has been falsified and that has lost the clue to its own meaning. According to his view, every aspect of progress, every scientific advance, the achievement of every artist and every mystic is to be tested not against a supernatural world but in the practical world of human society. It is only in this way that the efficacy of religion and its high usefulness to mankind will be able to continue in its historical importance and perhaps even create a world of peace and well-being.  

The Structure of Religious Experience (The Terry Lectures Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Yale University Press

The Boundaries Of Science

History

Franklin Classics

John Macmurray was a Scot who fought in World War I and subsequently became a philosopher and broadcaster. In his Gifford Lectures he set out to challenge certain presuppositions in traditional thinking on the nature of the "self", which have led to its being regarded as pure "subject", as opposed to the world as "object". In this second volume of those lectures, he attempts to show that the form of the personal life is determined by the mutuality of personal relationships, so that the unit of human life is not the "I" alone, but the "You and I".

Persons in Relation (Gifford Lectures, 1954.)

Self-Help

Kirkpatrick, Frank G.

Relationships

Humanities Pr

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Reason and Emotion

Humanities Press

Interpreting the Universe

Humanities

The Self As Agent: The Gifford Lectures for 1953.

Faber and Faber

The self as agent (Faber papered covered editions)

FABER

Persons in relation (Faber paper covered editions)

Persons in Relation (The Form of the Personal)

Faber&Faber

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