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October 7, 2020

S1E01 Richard Rorty and Achieving Our Country w/ Adrian Rutt

What has happened to the political left since the 1960s? What distinguishes the reformist left from the cultural left? What does it mean for a…

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A pragmatic approach to ideas

“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?’”
—William James

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S1E01 Richard Rorty and Achieving Our Country w/ Adrian Rutt