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This thinker questioned why rulers like Napoleon and Philip II are called monsters while those who behave tyrannically in matters of intellect are said to be philosophic prophets. Â In a different work, he used Walt Whitman as an example of a person who valued flowers over dark human passions and whose soul had a "sky-blue tint," contrasting "The Sick Soul" with "The (*) Religion of Healthy Mindedness." Â He critiqued the view that thought existed as a sequence of ideas, instead claiming that it was composed of a "stream of consciousness." Â He imagined the scenario of a man who needs to cross a rickety bridge as a time when faith would be useful in his essay "The Will to Believe." Â For 10 points, name this thinker who wrote The Varieties of Religious Experience and Pragmatism.
This thinker questioned why rulers like Napoleon and Philip II are called monsters while those who behave tyrannically in matters of intellect are said to be philosophic prophets.
William James [prompt on partial answer]