# Erraticus: A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas

> An online publication focused on human flourishing\. We care about ideas that help us to live well, focusing on their practical consequences\.

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## Pages
- [Submissions](https://erraticus.co/submissions/): Erraticus accepts submissions for long\-form and short\-form essays, as well as poetry\. We want to engage with ideas that work\.
- [The Erraticus Blog](https://erraticus.co/the-erraticus-blog/)
- [About Erraticus](https://erraticus.co/pragmatic-approach-to-ideas/): Erraticus is an online publication focused on human flourishing\. We care about ideas that work, focusing on their practical consequences\.
- [Damn the Absolute](https://erraticus.co/damn-the-absolute-podcast/): Damn the Absolute\! is a podcast about our relationship to ideas\. Doing our damnedest to not block the path of inquiry\. 
- [Our Pragmatist Values](https://erraticus.co/pragmatic-values/): While we are passionate about our approach to ideas, we hope to hold these pragmatic values gently and with intellectual humility\.

## Posts
- [The Power of One Idea](https://erraticus.co/2020/06/24/john-kaag-sick-souls-healthy-minds-william-james-pragmatism/): William James offers a way to evaluate the fruitfulness of ideas by tethering them to the common ground of lived experience\.
- [Building a Faith Community Without Belief in God](https://erraticus.co/2017/11/07/building-a-faith-community-without-belief-in-god/): Tranquil chaos surrounded me, but I fervently believed that the humanities could offer answers to the big questions\. Could a commonwealth of non\-believers offer the same benefits of a faith community? 
- [Rortian Liberalism and the Problem of Truth](https://erraticus.co/2021/04/16/rortian-liberalism-richard-rorty-truth-pragmatism-cheryl-misak/): 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\.
- [Agape Restaurants Could Revive Toleration and Multiculturalism](http://erraticus.co/2018/07/09/agape-restaurants-could-revive-toleration-and-multiculturalism/): Debates surrounding tribalism and bigotry abound, many focused on biased media or public policy\. Agape Restaurants conceptualize food as a cultural force for realizing toleration and nurturing community—all while dining with strangers\.
- [Existentialism in Children's Film](http://erraticus.co/2020/05/06/existentialism-childrens-film-batman-begins-lego-movie-babe/): Children's films tend to emphasize the role of destiny or chance, but existential themes can be found in a few that highlight the importance of agency and defining the meaning of one's own life\.

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## Episode
- [S2E05 Americans Don’t Know How to Sing the Blues w/ Brad Elliott Stone \& Jacob Goodson](https://erraticus.co/podcast/s2e05-americans-dont-know-how-to-sing-the-blues-w-brad-elliott-stone-jacob-goodson/)
- [S2E04 Does Metamodernism Actually Move Us Past Postmodernism? w/ Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm](https://erraticus.co/podcast/s2e04-does-metamodernism-actually-move-us-past-postmodernism-w-jason-ananda-josephson-storm/): The German philosopher Hegel gives us a useful tool for understanding the history of ideas: thesis, antithesis, and synthesis\. We can see this clearly in the movement from the Enlightenment to romanticism to modernism and postmodernism—each\.\.\.
- [S2E03 Literature Must Be an Unsettling Force for Democracy w/ Elin Danielsen Huckerby](https://erraticus.co/podcast/s2e03-literature-must-be-an-unsettling-force-for-democracy-w-elin-danielsen-huckerby/): Whether it's theology, philosophy, politics, or science, it is not uncommon for people to believe their particular worldview has greater authority over others\. This authoritarian approach to ideas implies that one person's representation of truth more\.\.\.
- [S2E02 Fear of Breakdown in American Democracy w/ Noëlle McAfee](https://erraticus.co/podcast/s2e02-fear-of-breakdown-in-american-democracy-w-noelle-mcafee/): Democratic deliberation can be viewed in a few different ways\. It can be approached as a means of competing interests coming together to bargain between groups until they come to some kind of political agreement\.     From an epistemological\.\.\.
- [S2E01 Scientific Knowledge Is Metaphorical w/ Jessica Wahman](https://erraticus.co/podcast/s2e01-scientific-knowledge-is-metaphorical-w-jessica-wahman/): Scientific inquiry is sometimes viewed as a way of getting after literal knowledge, the belief our scientific claims are a one\-for\-one match with reality—or what is actually happening out there in the world\. However, this view requires a certainty\.\.\.

## Categories
- [Essays](https://erraticus.co/category/essays/)
- [Ideas](https://erraticus.co/category/ideas-erraticus-emotional-intelligence-spontaneous-culture/)
- [Philosophy](https://erraticus.co/category/philosophy/)
- [Culture](https://erraticus.co/category/culture/)
- [Society](https://erraticus.co/category/society/)

## Tags
- [Essential Reading](https://erraticus.co/tag/essential-reading/)
- [Politics](https://erraticus.co/tag/politics/)
- [Emotional Well\-Being](https://erraticus.co/tag/emotional-well-being/)
- [Community](https://erraticus.co/tag/community/)
- [Pragmatism](https://erraticus.co/tag/pragmatism/)

## Podcasts
- [Damn the Absolute\!](https://erraticus.co/series/damn-the-absolute/)

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