Pragmatism was a powerful force in World Philosophy during the early decades of the twentieth century. Then the First World War erupted, followed by the Great Depression, and later the horror of the Second World War. With these events, the progressive modernism, of which Pragmatism was surely a part, began to fall out of favor. [...]
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If Pragmatism was so great, what happened to it?
Posted by Jeff Carreira on August 2, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/08/02/if-pragmatism-was-so-great-what-happened-to-it/
Karma, Eastern Thought and the American Mind
American Philosophy since Ralph Waldo Emerson has had a strong connection to Eastern Enlightenment traditions. Emerson was reading the Bagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, and Zoroastrian texts as they were being translated in the west for the very first time in the early 19th century. He passed these on to his disciples and Henry [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on March 21, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/03/21/test/
