Dear list,

To these passionate pleas to "Do good, avoid bad",
I would implore you to consider the critical question:

"*Why then had it not been put to its serious use?"*

For
*No doubt, Pragmaticism makes thought ultimately apply to action
exclusively *
*- to conceived action.*

With best wishes,
Jerry R

On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 2:03 PM Gary Richmond <[email protected]>
wrote:

> List,
>
> Whoops. I was just informed that I left off the Kyle Henry quote. Sorry
> about that. Here it is:
>
> Kyle Henry: Extremist Libertarianism, ascendant from the Reagan revolution
> onward, has been so corrosive in the USA to community and civic life. What
> would have happened in the USA if Utilitarianism instead would have won out
> ideologically in 1980? Reading my notes on J.S. Mill's "Utilitarianism"
> this morning, this stood out: "Not only does all strengthening of social
> ties, and all healthy growth of society, give to each individual a stronger
> personal interest in practically consulting the welfare of others; it
> also leads him to identify his feelings more and more with their good, or
> at least with an even greater degree of practical consideration for it...
> The good of others becomes to him a thing naturally and necessarily to be
> attended to, like any of the physical conditions of our existence. Now,
> whatever amount of this feeling a person has, he is urged by the strongest
> motives both of interest and of sympathy to demonstrate it, and to the
> utmost of his power encourage it in others; and even if he has none of it
> himself, he is as greatly interested as any one elase that others should
> have it... This mode of conceiving ourselves and human life, as
> civilization goes on, is felt to be more and more natural."
>
> Best,
>
> Gary R
>
> "Time is not a renewable resource." gnox
>
> *Gary Richmond*
> *Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
> *Communication Studies*
> *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York*
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 1:56 PM Gary Richmond <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Helmut, List,
>>
>> After reading your email I happened to get a post from Kyle Henry, a
>> well-known film-maker and educator whom I met a few years ago at the SXSW
>> premiere of a documentary, 'Before You Know It', which Kyle edited and in
>> which I appear. Kyle is also an educator and an armchair philosopher (when
>> thoroughly 'self-educated' in philosophy, the best kind, I'm beginning to
>> think).
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Henry
>>
>> In any event, he recently wrote this, which I found thought-provoking in
>> the context of several of your recent reflections in the Pragmatic Trivium
>> thread. In light of Peirce's discussions of Mill's philosophy (in the
>> secondary literature (see, for example:
>> https://www.jstor.org/stable/40320085?seq=1), I thought that it might
>> help bring the discussion back to pragmatism. Perhaps not. In any event, I
>> found it is interesting in its own right and hope that you do as well.
>> (Btw, I'll not be discussing politics. including "Libertarianism," in this
>> thread unless I see a clear connection to philosophical pragmatism).
>> So, this should be seen principally as more American Independence Day
>> food for thought.
>>
>> ,
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>> "Time is not a renewable resource." gnox
>>
>> *Gary Richmond*
>> *Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
>> *Communication Studies*
>> *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 2:25 PM Helmut Raulien <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Edwina, List,
>>>
>>> I don´t think that rightism is the same as individualism. I is
>>> collective ideology too, though more particularistic than leftism. It
>>> claims a supremacy of a particular collective such as "race" or nation.
>>> Though leftism sometimes also is particularist, classist. Leftism, if it is
>>> supremacistic, wants to give supremacy to groups that dont have it now,
>>> while rightism wants the groups that have supremacy now to keep it.
>>> Capitalism is neither rightism nor leftism, because it allows the power in
>>> the form of money to freely wander between the groups. Only it does not. It
>>> tends to stay with those who already have it.
>>>
>>>
>>> 04. Juli 2020 um 19:20 Uhr
>>> "Edwina Taborsky" <[email protected]>
>>> *wrote:*
>>>
>>> Terry - please see my comments below:
>>>
>>> 1] I don't think my understanding of fascism is a 'small minority
>>> conception'. I won't take a Wikipedia definition as legitimate and refer
>>> you to such works as Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism; Roger Eatwell:
>>> Fascism: A History. Of course, there's Mussolini's definition. See also
>>> Popper's long definition and analysis in his books: The Open Society and
>>> Its Enemies.
>>>
>>> . All of them focus on the definition of fascism as a collective
>>> ideology [which is what makes it 'left' rather than 'right' - for the
>>> 'right' ideology promotes the individual while the left promotes the
>>> collective'. ]. The point about fascism, with its rejection of individual
>>> reason and freedom, is its focus on the organic nation [of which you are
>>> just an inherent member]  as a determinant of the future. This also puts it
>>> firmly in the area of 'historicism' with that notion of a determined future
>>> utopia. Its rejection of individual reason and freedom and its focus on a
>>> 'higher authority as embedded in the State' puts it within the ideology of
>>> the collective.[See Plato's Republic; an outline of fascism - so, it's
>>> hardly a modern ideology!!!].  The fact that it is commonly opposed to
>>> communism is superficial - for both reject the individual reason and
>>> freedom; both are utopian and focused on an a priori 'future goal of
>>> perfection'. Both function  within, if I may compare: the emotionalism of
>>> Firstness and the pure intellectualism of pure Thirdness. Totally alienated
>>> from the realities of Secondness - and the 'lesser' Thirdness.
>>>
>>> 2] I agree - fascism [and communism] reject and deny the famed Social
>>> Contract. Since they reject the individual, then, of course, they are not
>>> interested in any contractual participation of these individuals in their
>>> own governance.
>>>
>>> 3] I don't see that capitalism is toxic. In fact, I see that capitalism,
>>> which means that economic production is in the control of private and free
>>> individuals  - rather than the State or an aristocracy - has moved more
>>> people out of poverty than any economic system in the world. And note -
>>> that capitalism doesn't emerge from fascism!
>>>
>>> 4] I also don't understand your term of 'fascist capitalism'. You
>>> haven't explained it.
>>>
>>> 5 I have no idea what you mean by 'alt-right fascist pseudo-Christianity
>>> and fascist  capitalism.'. Capitalism, in my definition, can't be fascist
>>> [or communist] since its operation is focused around the individual, while
>>> that of fascism and communism rejects individual freedoms and economic
>>> decision-making. I refer you to Fernand Braudel's magnificent histories of
>>> the development of the market economy in the 15th-17th centuries in Europe.
>>> See also Milton Friedman's work [eg, Free to Choose]. And F. Hayek's famed
>>> 'The Road to Serfdom]
>>>
>>> A data source for exploring which nations operate within individual
>>> freedoms, is to examine the number of inventions, patents, new enterprises
>>> in each nation. The USA is the strongest in these fields.
>>>
>>> 6] Democracy is a messy system - as many have attested, for aligning the
>>> freedom of the individual [Firstness and Secondness] with the restraints of
>>> the collective habits-Rules [Government] is always contentious - but- to
>>> have only ONE of these three universes/categories in operation is
>>> disastrous. All three have to interact. Furthermore, to reject historicism,
>>> or an a priori destiny and leave the future open - is emotionally difficult
>>> for it involves risk - and most of us prefer security, even under a 'gentle
>>> tyrant' rather than risk. So democracy has to be always an active process,
>>> one which we cherish and support - and where we reject any hints or efforts
>>> to remove these freedoms.
>>>
>>> Edwina
>>>
>>> Edwina
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat 04/07/20 12:27 PM , Terry L Rankin [email protected] sent:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Edwina Taborsky
>>> Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2020 9:01 AM
>>> To: [email protected]; 'Peirce-L' ; [email protected]; Terry L Rankin
>>> Subject: Re: RE: RE: [PEIRCE-L] The Pragmatic Trivium
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ET> Based on your outline - I'm not sure that you and I are in agreement
>>> on all points.
>>>
>>> Apparently I was mistaken to suppose we were.
>>>
>>> ET> I'm not sure what 'fascist capitalism' means. Fascism is a 'leftist'
>>> ideology, promoting the collective vs the individual. Capitalism is an
>>> economic ideology, based around the economic enterprises of the private
>>> individual.
>>>
>>> That’s a pretty small minority conception of ‘fascism’ – actually, from
>>> Wikipedia, the more common and widely acknowledged conception is that it’s
>>> “a form of far-right <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics>
>>> , authoritarian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism>
>>> ultranationalism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultranationalism> [1]
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-authoritarian-and-authoritarianism-1>
>>> [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-2> characterized
>>> by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, as well as strong
>>> regimentation of society and of the economy[3]
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-3> which came to
>>> prominence in early 20th-century Europe.[4]
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-RoutledgeCompanion-4> The
>>> first fascist movements emerged in Italy
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Fascism> during World War I
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I>, before spreading to other
>>> European countries <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism_in_Europe>.[4]
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-RoutledgeCompanion-4> 
>>> Opposed
>>> to liberalism <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism>, Marxism
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism>, and anarchism
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism>, fascism is placed on the far
>>> right within the traditional left–right spectrum
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%80%93right_spectrum>.[4]
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-RoutledgeCompanion-4>
>>> [5]
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-University-Aristotle-Hartley-Wilhelm-Hawkesworth-5>
>>> [6] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism#cite_note-6>” [emphasis
>>> added]
>>>
>>> ET> What I rejected in James was, as you point out, a totalitarian
>>> process, based on his idea of 'the perfect state' - an idea which Popper
>>> outlines as found in the ideology of 'historicism'. Historicism is a view
>>> based around an innate destiny of a natural [or God-given] destiny of
>>> mankind/or a special group - and the path towards some kind of ultimate
>>> utopian perfection. Whether found in Plato, or Hegel or Marx - or Mussolini
>>> or Hitler or the UN - it relies on an ideology based, as I see it, in the
>>> emotional vacuity of a bond between Firstness and Thirdness. That is - it's
>>> removed from pragmatic reality. And it is inevitably disastrous.
>>>
>>> Here, you seem to align James more closely to the common understanding
>>> of fascism as given in Wikipedia and quoted above … and, IMHO, rightly so.
>>> I struggle with the idea that ideologies (be they religious, philosophical,
>>> political, social, scientific, cultural, or whatever) are “removed from
>>> practical reality,” however. I find it difficult to reconcile that with the
>>> pragmatic maxim Peirce expressed, for example. For me, fascism is the
>>> abrogation of the very idea of any form of social contract, which is how
>>> and why it is inherently a totalitarian ideology that, as you say, is
>>> inevitably disastrous. Indeed, fascism is the tyrannous ground from which
>>> the toxic fruits of rapacious unfettered capitalism inevitably spring in
>>> abundance. Hence my view that fascist capitalism is the black heart of the
>>> global regime running the world today.
>>>
>>> ET> I prefer Popper's 'piecemeal' bricolage which is based around the
>>> individual. I think the US Declaration of Independence, which is one of the
>>> greatest documents in history, to be an excellent example of this view.
>>> The  individual is, of course, an entity grounded in Secondness [as well as
>>> 1ns and 3ns] - but all three interact and constantly confront each other
>>> with their data and perimeters.
>>>
>>> On paper, The US DofI indeed is a magnificent manifesto. In practice,
>>> especially 244 years later, however, it’s an irrelevant relic – an
>>> anachronism – relative to the truth and reality of USAmerica in the 21st
>>> century. Along with the Constitution and its Bill of Rights (also a
>>> magnificent document), the US DofI is a symbolic cornerstone of our civil
>>> religion and its pseudo-patriotic mythology. Together with the
>>> red-white-and-blue iconically symbolic US flag and emblematic Eagle,
>>>  they’ve been completely expunged from social, economic, cultural, and
>>> political truth and reality in the US, displaced by the tyranny of
>>> alt-right fascist pseudo-Christianity and fascist  capitalism. Meanwhile a
>>> bitterly divided citizenry stumbles around in the semiotic dissonance of
>>> still clinging to the USAmerican mythology and its civil religion, which
>>> blocks all discernment of truth and reality, both individually and
>>> collectively, with temperamental allergy to rational bricolage being just
>>> another pandemic in the world, most virulent and morbid in USAmerica.
>>>
>>> My apologies for reading into your post to the list what apparently
>>> wasn’t there.
>>>
>>> One Peace,
>>> Terry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri 03/07/20 11:48 PM , Terry L Rankin [email protected] sent:
>>>
>>> Edwina & list,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems you and I are in agreement to at least some extent, Edwina, on
>>> common Peircean and Popperian grounds.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In my Peircean philosophy of science and theistic view, James’ and
>>> Dewey’s co-opting and corruption of Peirce’s pragmat(ic)ism facilitated the
>>> hybridization of anti- and post-Peircean utilitarian pragmatism with the
>>> neopositivist scientism imported from Europe’s Vienna Circle between the
>>> Great War and WWII. The subsequent ascent of USAmerican fascist capitalism
>>> through the Cold War era to become the contemporary domestic police state
>>> and global neoliberalism ruling the world today under its new (World
>>> Economic Forum) “Great Reset
>>> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/06/now-is-the-time-for-a-great-reset/&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cf5edc387b4384606f5c908d8201a4cda%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637294644619301617&sdata=O63SduI%2BVvM8b5Qk7Gle3FIXsAv3AzE3YF8UN92MsjQ%3D&reserved=0>”
>>> from “state (fascist) capitalism” through “shareholder (fascist)
>>> capitalism” to its latest (as of January this year at Davos) “
>>> stakeholder (fascist) capitalism
>>> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/davos-manifesto-2020-the-universal-purpose-of-a-company-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cf5edc387b4384606f5c908d8201a4cda%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637294644619316601&sdata=WE/GuGBhmL/tmwnKKB6wgpkypsr93IxenGly5KmJzps%3D&reserved=0>”
>>> is, I suggest, exactly the seed of totalitarianism you sense in James,
>>> spread now a century later like a genetically engineered toxic kudzu to
>>> destroy the planet and most of the life on it in what’s widely acknowledged
>>> to be the anthropogenic 6th mass extinction level event on Earth
>>> (‘MELEE#6’). The demon seed that spawned the fascist capitalist Fourth
>>> Reich we’re in today is that neopositivist scientism fertilizing the
>>> pragmatism ovum of utilitarianism to destroy the world and the lifeforms it
>>> sustains, including us.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Peirce was an existentialist good-faith road not taken at a crossroads
>>> that now turns out to have been a fatal mistake. Taking the other path,
>>> what James, Dewey, Carnap, Neurath, and others unleashed instead is the
>>> worst-faith tyranny of global fascist capitalism to carry the day and
>>> humanity’s future into that MELEE#6 truth and reality, the signs of  which
>>> have just begun to appear in common experience. COVID-19 may in fact be the
>>> first death scything in the onrushing bad night into which most of us will
>>> go anything but gently before the end of the century if not much sooner.
>>> With that ‘perfect society’ delusion as the future agenda, small wonder
>>> Harvard all but buried ‘the American Aristotle’ in ignominious penury
>>> during his life and beyond his death. That strikes me as an alluring Occam
>>> reduction despite the improbability of the elitist power and wealth
>>> conspiracism it would require.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To the extent that we are in fact aligned on at least some elements of
>>> Peirce and Popper in light of the contemporary states of nature, union, and
>>> the world at large we’re in today, Edwina, I appreciate the corroboration,
>>> however limited it may be. You surely know Peirce far better than I, so
>>> wherever you may doubt or dispute my views as stated in this message,
>>> please share your thoughts further so I may sharpen my own. Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Still in One Peace,
>>>
>>> Terry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Edwina Taborsky
>>> Sent: Friday, July 3, 2020 3:45 PM
>>> To: 'Peirce-L' ; [email protected]
>>> Subject: Re: RE: [PEIRCE-L] The Pragmatic Trivium
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I personally find the comments by Henry James the elder rather ..I'm not
>>> sure of the word. Not merely naïve but possibly alarming.
>>>
>>> I consider that the agenda to develop a 'perfect society' has always
>>> been a basis for totalitarian subjugation - whether it be the socialism of
>>> fascism or communism; whether it be an isolate cult or an ideology.
>>>
>>> Such an agenda, in my view, ignores that we are material, finite
>>> entities, and as such in a mode of Secondness, which is a mode of 'brute
>>> interaction' - and diversity rather than homogeneity. Furthermore,  we
>>> cannot ignore that there is no such thing as 'perfection' - whatever that
>>> means. Instead, I prefer the 'bricolage' of Karl Popper, his rejection of
>>> 'historicism' [vs a theistic interpretation, ie by recognizing God as the
>>> author of the play performed on the historical stage" [The Open Society and
>>> Its Enemies, p8]. AND the open evolution of both Popper and Peirce, where,
>>> with the reality of both Firstness and Secondness and Thirdness - there is
>>> no such thing as 'perfect'.
>>>
>>> Edwina
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri 03/07/20 1:39 PM , [email protected] sent:
>>>
>>> Gary R, list,
>>>
>>> I just came across a piece of the reverse side of Turning Signs that
>>> strikes me as relevant to the “ways in which Peirce's philosophical trivium
>>> might help inform the aesthetics, ethics, and critical thinking of the
>>> world as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic” — and relevant in a way
>>> that I don’t think has been discussed in this thread before. It’s only a
>>> 3-to-5 minute read:
>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=%3Ca%20href=>
>>> http://www.gnusystems.ca/TS/snc.htm%23x14&data=02%7C01%7C%7C197c0bee948f4a6d64b208d81f89951c%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637294023054795065&sdata=/SahKb602KmoK8pzD3QB5QExXhxXRzioBzF6XXL7wAY%3D&reserved=0";
>>> target="_blank">
>>> http://www.gnusystems.ca/TS/snc.htm%23x14&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cf5edc387b4384606f5c908d8201a4cda%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637294644619326583&sdata=uYBEhDId04/YjrwZ4vpwOgRUycr1SX1WekzEdhMy8SA%3D&reserved=0
>>> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=%3Ca%20href=>"
>>> target="_blank"> http://www.gnusystems.ca/TS/snc.htm#x14 .
>>>
>>> Gary f.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Gary Richmond <[email protected]>
>>> Sent: 13-Jun-20 16:04
>>>
>>> List,
>>>
>>> In a recent op-ed piece titled "The End of College as We Knew It" (
>>> https://tinyurl.com/ybha8mhb
>>> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://tinyurl.com/ybha8mhb&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cf5edc387b4384606f5c908d8201a4cda%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637294644619331574&sdata=aqXlo8WTQuJIydDhL3hpltDMY3KOoqydd0acNc/L0XM%3D&reserved=0>),
>>>  Frank
>>> Bruni reflects on something I've been informally discussing with friends
>>> and colleagues now for years; namely, that "A society without a
>>> grounding in ethics, self-reflection, empathy and beauty is one that has
>>> lost its way” (Brian Rosenberg, recently  president of Macalester
>>> College). It seems to me that this has happened in the United States.
>>>
>>> It has long seemed to me that America today has largely abandoned what
>>> might be called the normative trivium of aesthetics, ethics, and logic --
>>> Peirce's three Normative Sciences, not the classical trivium (for which
>>> see Sister Miriam Joseph
>>> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Miriam_Joseph&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cf5edc387b4384606f5c908d8201a4cda%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637294644619341557&sdata=VogmzqJ75ExVcQmWPrYZEKDzTFHSUJG35lpxzK4bq18%3D&reserved=0>'s
>>> 2002 book, The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric)
>>> that he generalized to serve as the three branches of Logic as Semeiotic.
>>>
>>> This philosophical trivium points to the possible application of
>>> Peirce's three Normative Sciences -- not their theoretical forms, but
>>> rather their ordinary and potentially pragmatic guises as they appear in
>>> life practice, including reflection and action upon what is beautiful in
>>> art and nature, what is ethical in our behavior in the world, and how we
>>> can apply 'critical commonsenseism' in our quotidian lives. Bruni writes: " 
>>> We
>>> need writers, philosophers, historians. They’ll be the ones to chart the
>>> social, cultural and political challenges of this pandemic -- and of all
>>> the other dynamics that have pushed the United States so harrowingly close
>>> to the edge. In terms of restoring faith in the American project and
>>> reseeding common ground, they’re beyond essential. "
>>>
>>> Bruni's op-ed reflection came in part in response to a recent article by
>>> Rosenberg in The Chronicle of Higher Education ; see "How Should
>>> Colleges Prepare for a Post-Pandemic World" (
>>> https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Should-Colleges-Prepare/248507
>>> <https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Should-Colleges-Prepare/248507&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cf5edc387b4384606f5c908d8201a4cda%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637294644619356532&sdata=qjWd4n2MqpnmohRUgVF6iOri5gIqd7SLEWyWt4nzKV8%3D&reserved=0>).
>>> Rosenberg writes: “If one were to invent a crisis uniquely and diabolically
>>> designed to undermine the foundations of traditional colleges and
>>> universities, it might look very much like the current global pandemic.” In
>>> a similar vein, Professor Andrew Belbanco, president of the Teagle
>>> Foundation which gives as its purpose promoting the liberal arts, writes:  
>>> “This
>>> is not only a public health crisis and an economic crisis, though Lord
>>> knows it’s both of those. It’s also a values crisis. It raises all
>>> kinds of deep human questions: What are our responsibilities to other
>>> people? Does representative democracy work? How do we get to a place where
>>> something like bipartisanship could emerge again?”
>>>
>>> Commenting on the economic divide of the American university, Bruni
>>> notes that "the already pronounced divide between richly endowed, largely
>>> residential schools and more socioeconomically diverse ones that depend on
>>> public funding grows wider as state and local governments face
>>> unprecedented financial distress. A shrinking minority of students get a
>>> boutique college experience. Then there’s everybody else."  Gail Mellow,
>>> former president of LaGuardia College of the City University of New York
>>> (where I taught for decades before my retirement) is quoted as saying, “We
>>> always knew that America was moving more and more toward very different
>>> groups of people," to which Bruni adds, "that movement is only
>>> accelerating."
>>>
>>> Confronting all this will undoubtedly be one of the great challenges
>>> that America -- and for that matter, the world -- will have in the years
>>> and decades to come. The question I pose is: Can Peirce's version of
>>> pragmatism (or pragmaticism) -- which he also calls 'critical
>>> commonsenseism' -- creatively contribute to these enormous challenges? And,
>>> if so, how? And are there ways in which Peirce's philosophical trivium
>>> might help inform the aesthetics, ethics, and critical thinking of the
>>> world as it emerges from the coronavirus pandemic? If so, how?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [Note: I have Bcc'd this post to several former members of this forum, a
>>> few members who rarely if ever post but who have stayed in contact with me
>>> offlist, and a few friends and colleagues who have not been members but who
>>> may have an interest in this topic. Those who are not current members of
>>> the forum may send your thoughts on the topic off-list to me letting me
>>> know if I have your permission to post them.]
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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