INTRODUCTORY: THE GLOBAL POTENTIAL OF PRAGMATISM
INTRODUCTORY: THE GLOBAL POTENTIAL OF PRAGMATISM

Summary/Abstract: From among the many philosophies that have ever existed, the best versions may be considered the philosophies that exert their effect on human conduct. Philosophy for the sake of philosophy itself may be edifying and sublime, like the highest of the arts, but if philosophy does not move us toward ameliorative action in order to become better human beings who make their world better, it ends up as a luxurious “language game” or “intellectual gymnastics” that we can no longer afford. Of course, action without wisdom is stupid, even disastrous. If the mission of philosophy is to bring wisdom into action, and if there is any wisdom in philosophy at all, this wisdom will be active and it will teach us how to live and how to act.

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