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Values and powers : re-reading the philosophical tradition of American pragmatism /
This book shows how much and in what sense values are related to powers and powers are related to values in American pragmatism. The proposed re-reading of American pragmatism will facilitate a novel understanding of it as a philosophical movement and, by showing its truly humanistic, democratic, an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2009.
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| Colección: | Value inquiry book series ;
v. 213. Value inquiry book series. Central-European value studies. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : values and powers in a philosophical context
- pt. 1, Proto-pragmatic approach to values and powers. A prelude to American pragmatism : transcendentalism as the power of thought and of will ; Charles S. Pierce's pragmaticism and the revaluation of thinking on values and powers
- pt. 2, Pragmatic approach to values and powers. The axiology of pragmatic metaphysics : the powers of men in William James ; Loyalty to a worthy cause and provincialism as saving power in Josiah Royce ; John Dewey and the might of democratic values ; Democracy and exclusion in pragmatic aesthetics (Dewey, Shusterman, Margolis) ; Evaluative character of social interactions in George Herbert Mead ; Richard Rorty's liberal democracy and the limits of cultural imperialism
- pt. 3, Quasi-pragmatic approach to values and powers. Powers and perfections in George Santayana's Abulensean pragmatism.