This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX PRAGMATISM 1. Pragmatism: The Philosophy Op Practicality "The Western Goth, so fiercely practical, so keen of eye" has at last gotten himself a philosophy. It is pragmatism, the philosophy of practicality, the gospel of energy, whose prime criterion is success. It has been called a business ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX PRAGMATISM 1. Pragmatism: The Philosophy Op Practicality "The Western Goth, so fiercely practical, so keen of eye" has at last gotten himself a philosophy. It is pragmatism, the philosophy of practicality, the gospel of energy, whose prime criterion is success. It has been called a business philosophy which demands results; a bread-and-butter view of life which aims at consequences. In short, pragmatism furnishes a sort of speculative' clearing-house which says that a philosophic theory mjist have cash value and be true if it works, and false if it fails. Pragmatism is not a metaphysical system, but a method of testing systems. Each one applies the test for himself and chooses that which best suits his own particular case. At the first glance and from a superficial view pragmatism seems a philosophy typical of the land of the dollar. But it is more than that. Besides the material factor it brings in the personal. As a doctrine of personalism it is aggressive; it emphasizes self-sufficingness as against self-surrender; pragmatists are literally poets, makers, they contribute to truth, enlarge metaphysical reality. This is the doctrine of dynamism/which lies at the bottom of the movement and explains/the constant recurrence to the temperamental test, the formula of feeling. Pragmatic truth is truth with a thrill to it; if we can feel that our theories work, we can have the most intense of satisfactions, --that of personal assertion. Personalism plus dynamism is the formula of ag gressive pragmatism. As such it can almost be called Americanism. It expresses the national worship of the f practica] invfntnr, thf pushing man of affairs. But here the doctrine broadens into wider aspects. Besides the confidence in the application of...
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Very Good. Hardcover with black cloth boards, 1915, octavo, 373pp., not illustrated. Book VG with rubbing and mild soil to boards and spine, spine ends and corners bumped and worn, binding tight but front inner hinge cracked, partially removed plate to front pastedown, text clean and unmarked but toned throughout. No DJ.
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