[Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
Dubois studied with pragmatist. CB The Science of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois By Dr. Anthony Monteiro The intellectual high point of DuBois' Harvard years was a fifty-two page handwritten essay entitled The Renaissance of Ethics: A Critical Comparison of Scholastic and Modern Ethics, prepared for a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Ralph Dumain
There is an earlier posting of an extensive article on Du Bois' intellectual background--you were the one who posted it, maybe? This is very useful info. There is a lot more info on this sort of thing published, since, circa 1990, including considerations of DuBois; relation to Hegel. Just a

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread andie nachgeborenen
The Science of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois By Dr. Anthony Monteiro MONTEIRO: Pragmatism as articulated by James and later John Dewey held that human knowledge was severely limited to immediate experience. Totally false. Ridiculously ignorant. Only an illiterate or someone who had never

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Jim Farmelant
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 09:30:23 -0800 (PST) andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Science of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois By Dr. Anthony Monteiro MONTEIRO: Pragmatism as articulated by James and later John Dewey held that human knowledge was severely limited to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain There is an earlier posting of an extensive article on Du Bois' intellectual background--you were the one who posted it, maybe? This is very useful info. There is a lot more info on this sort of thing published, since, circa 1990, including considerations of DuBois;

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread andie nachgeborenen
--- Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that it is important to be accurate in one's criticisms. 'Pragmatism' became a generic whipping boy--one I love to whip, too--torn loose from the specifics of the specific ideas of specific philosophers. Right. It becomes boring to

[Marxism-Thaxis] Critique of pragmatism

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
Here's an annotation by Ralph ( I think) from his Pragmatism and Its Discontents: Annotated Selected Bibliography http://www.autodidactproject.org/bib/pragmabib-a.html Given Ralph's discussion of the racism of some of the progressives of the early 20th Century, Dubois' thinking added in is

[Marxism-Thaxis] Googling Monteiro

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 37,500 for Anthony ) The WEB Du Bois Virtual University http://members.tripod.com/~DuBois/phcf.html Anthony Monteiro, Assistant Professor of Sociology Du Bois and the political economy of race. PANEL 2. WEB Du Bois, His World View and Social Science ...

[Marxism-Thaxis] Materialist dialectics

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
I'm puzzled on one count, though: I'm pretty sure that the LP-ers--Carnap surely, and even Neurath--would object to diamat on the basis that it is metaphysics, thus cognitively meaningless. They would say it was cognitively meaningless, and I didn't mean to say otherwise, I may have gotten

[Marxism-Thaxis] More on Dubois, Hegel, Monteiro

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
March 1998 Souls of Black Folk A 1998 Revisitation In 1998 we commemorate the 130th anniversary of the birth of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois and the 35th of his death. This year, too, we mark the 95th anniversary of the publication of his seminal

[Marxism-Thaxis] Pragmatism and the Problem of Race

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
New Books! http://www.pragmatism.org/pragmatism_race.jpg Pragmatism and the Problem of Race http://www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-34361-5.shtml eds. Bill Lawson and Donald Koch Indiana UP, 2004 The Pragmatism Cybrary The

[Marxism-Thaxis] The Educational Philosophy of W.E.B. DuBois

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/PES-Yearbook/1998/mcswine.html The Educational Philosophy of W.E.B. DuBois Bartley L. McSwine Chicago State University After being black-listed for many years, the works of W.E.B. DuBois are once again being published, read, discussed, and written about both in

[Marxism-Thaxis] Metaphysics

2005-12-05 Thread Charles Brown
http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/m/e.htm Metaphysics A branch of philosophy dating back to the time of Aristotle http://www.marxists.org/glossary/people/a/r.htm#aristotle , referring to the study of what is beyond the senses. By the 16th century Metaphysics became synonymous with Ontology