RE: [xmca] Zo-peds, roads, and Senseis

From: Andy Blunden (ablunden@mira.net)
Date: Wed Dec 27 2006 - 17:19:00 PST


At 10:01 AM 27/12/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>Andy,
>
>I wouldn't call the "Theses" Pragmatic because they didn't come from the
>same source.

Exactly. So you're not yourself a Pragmatist, Michael. :-)
Andy

>But I will say that Sidney Hook, one of Dewey's favorite students,
>attempted to get Dewey to read Marx (he claimed he never had) stating that
>their ideas were very sympathetic and important for each other (later Hook
>became a virulent anti-communist). Dewey claimed he did not read Marx and
>had no intention of doing so (I don't know why - it seemed odd. He didn't
>seem to have anything against Marx, just sort of those "Who has the time"
>things.) So at least parts of the These might be very sympathetic to
>Pragmatism.
>
>Michael
>
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>From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Andy Blunden
>Sent: Wed 12/27/2006 1:44 AM
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>Subject: RE: [xmca] Zo-peds, roads, and Senseis
>
>
>
>I think that is fair, Michael. Tell me, would the Marxism of the "Theses on
>Feuerbach" fall under the heading of Pragmatism in your understanding?
>Amdu
>At 11:31 AM 26/12/2006 -0500, Michael Glassman wrote:
> >... If you ask me, they are all versions of Pragmatism. Ironically, as
> >obscure as the word was it has entered the American lexicon as a rather
> >common word. The only trouble is I think nobody is quite sure what it
> >means. Somewhere Peirce is laughing.
> >
> >Michael
>
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