Robert G.Olson

Thus one may best describe the fundamental project of the human reality in saying that man is the being who projects to be God. . . . And if man possesses a preontological comprehension of the being of God, it is neither the great spectacle of nature nor the power of society which have given it to him. Rather God . . . represents the permanent limits in terms of which man understands his being. To be man is to strive to be God, or, if one prefers, man fundamentally desires to be God.

According to James, the whole “intellectual apparatus” of mankind has as its sole purpose the resolution of conflicts between the individual’s instincts or between the individual and his environment. It is simply an instrument by