Word: pragmatists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken a good deal on faith: "I have made my ethical code out of the hunger and thirst after social righteousness. Such a formula makes life comparatively simple, and it makes religion simple. I took God's help for granted in the work I was doing." A pragmatist who believes that the proof of the pill is in the action, he defines truth as "ideas which aid us to build more capable minds and bodies." A hard worker, never strong, with an equally high-strung wife, he has naturally been drawn to Aesculapian cults, to the seamstress side...
Signer Fressolini will speak in Italian on the man who was the prototype of all modern political basses. Machiavelli was the first pragmatist in polities and many believe, the man whom Mussolini take as his model...
...Author-Great & good friend of John Dewey, socially-minded U. S. philosopher, and fellow-Pragmatist, Horace Meyer Kallen was born a German Jew, is now a free-thinking U. S. Individual. In many a searching talk Dewey and Kallen mulled over the ideas of Individualism. Originally planned as a collaboration, the book was finally written by Kallen alone. Students at Manhattan's New School for. Social Research, where Kallen lectures on psychology and philosophy, know him as an ironic but earnest speaker, are familiar with his soft, silky tones, his face like that of a large tabby cat with...
According to Professor Laski, Mr. Justice Holmes may be called a "legal pragmatist; legal doctrines and institutions, for him, are to be explained in terms of the convenience they represent." He is a realist. To quote Professor Laski again. "He has never spoken of law as the equivalent of justice. He has seen that, in any society, it is merely the will that has known how to get itself accepted . . . The true justification of a statute, he has somewhere written, lies 'in some help which the law brings toward reaching a social end which the governing power of the community...