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Pragmatism, however, was the brainchild of a small set of Americans living in Boston, D.C., and Chicago at the end of the 19th century. Some historians have argued that pragmatism was a philosophical response to the horrors of the Civil War.
Oct 6, 2017 · Here—in these four articles—was the pragmatic manifesto of Dewey’s philosophy placed at the service of the country at war (Dewey 1929g, 585). Dewey shared the pro-war progressives’ dream of a world based on international cooperation and democratic understanding.
- Charles F. Howlett
- 2017
Oct 15, 2024 · Dewey’s pragmatism celebrated human intelligence and agency and the promise that tomorrow could be better than today. For Dewey, pragmatism was the philosophy of democracy. Dewey lived from just before the Civil War to just before school integration.
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Jul 1, 2008 · The Civil War shot a hole through American society and its institutions, cutting the nation to its quick, revealing the failure of existing conceptions of democracy, culture, and even ideas themselves. Pragmatism, Menand (2001, pp. x–xii) argues, was one of the responses.
- Trevor J. Barnes
- 2008
Jan 1, 2023 · By the end of the nineteenth century, a small group of North American intellectuals known as the Pragmatists had laid the foundation for what became the dominant movement within American philosophy for the next half century. Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and...
Oct 21, 2024 · During the first quarter of the 20th century, pragmatism was the most influential philosophy in the United States, exerting an impact on the study of law, education, political and social theory, art, and religion. Six fundamental theses of this philosophy can be distinguished.
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Jan 25, 2022 · He argues that pragmatism arose after the Civil War because that unprecedentedly bloody conflict filled its children with a dread of non-negotiable moral principles, the kind that had motivated the fervid Great-Awakened abolitionists and eventually the Boston Brahmins themselves—from the complacent Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., to the avant ...
