An Ironist Must Learn to Listen Poetically
While the poet’s goal is to put imaginative notions into another person’s head, ironists instead seek to change themselves.
While the poet’s goal is to put imaginative notions into another person’s head, ironists instead seek to change themselves.
A defense of Charles Sanders Peirce and William James against the charge that their asymptotic approaches to truth and hope are juvenile.
Although some pragmatists argue truth is malleable and constantly changing, logician Charles Sanders Peirce asserts it is our knowledge of truth that is variable, not truth itself.
Pragmatism is an uncertain and pluralistic philosophy, but its malleability and modesty make it an incredibly hope-filled approach to life.
Contrasting with hope in a fixed or eternal order, pragmatists John Dewey and Richard Rorty connect hope to continual growth and conversation.
While pragmatists accept the tragic and boundless nature of a constantly changing and foundationless reality, William James offers hope in a naturalized theism.
As a recently laid-off academic becomes more immersed in a sangha, he tries to reconcile his newfound zazen practice with his western background.
Embedded into every tool is an ideological bias, and unless we continually re-evaluate new technologies, we may end up within a technopoly.
In defending liberalism, the philosopher Richard Rorty argues that there is no difference—in practice—between aiming at justification and aiming at something more called truth.
American politics is in peril. Now is the time to replace our broken bargaining tables with more deliberative democracy.
For low-income families, the move toward direct, broad cash benefits might prove to have a long-lasting impact once the COVID pandemic ends.
Rather than view recent political failings as flaws inherent to liberalism, we might be better served by focusing on the decline in trust.
‘The School of Life’ is on a crusade to avail us of our emotional ignorance. Philosopher Alain De Botton seeks to remedy the shortcomings of contemporary education systems and the institutions that have failed to instruct us in how to approach the big questions in life.
Many in the US are experiencing emotional unwellness, while our foundational institutions are rattling. CBT can help with both.