Pragmatism and Historicity.
This paper provides a straightforward argument that demonstrates the irreconcilability of pragmatism and transcendentalism, by way of Darwin's failure to account for the emergence of the human self or person and the existential and historied import of the human invention and mastery of language. On...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the Philosophy of History Vol. 13; no. 3; pp. 302 - 325 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=141322504&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 141322504 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1872261X 2SGR jtl: Journal of the Philosophy of History issn: 1872261X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: 2019 vid: 13 iid: 3 pid: 639 pub: Brill Academic Publishers artinfo: ui: 141322504 10.1163/18722636-12341430 ppf: 302 ppct: 23 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 510KB tig: atl: Pragmatism and Historicity. aug: au: Margolis, Joseph affil: Temple University su: Pragmatism Transcendentalism (Philosophy) Natural languages sug: subj: Pragmatism Transcendentalism (Philosophy) Natural languages keyword: evolution history natural language pragmatism self transcendentalism ab: This paper provides a straightforward argument that demonstrates the irreconcilability of pragmatism and transcendentalism, by way of Darwin's failure to account for the emergence of the human self or person and the existential and historied import of the human invention and mastery of language. On the Darwinian issue, I examine the implications of Darwin's having neglected the most important phase of the evolution of Homo sapiens – the invention and mastery of natural language, which account for the self-transformation of the human primate into a self or person (with the acquisition of competences that appear nowhere else in the animal world); and which signify a novel transformation of the evolutionary process itself – the hybrid entwining of biological and cultural forces in the formation of the self. It's a consequence of the invention of language that accounts for the historied nature of the human form of life. I treat history and historicity as existential constraints on the human form of cognition, which introduces an ineliminable but benign form of skepticism, which I show to be incompatible with Husserl's transcendentalism and his attempt to accommodate historicity. I take pragmatism to be committed to an existential treatment of history and historicity, in the context of reviewing George Herbert Mead's analysis of history and historical time. The two arguments converge on the incompatibility of pragmatism and transcendentalism. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of the Philosophy of History is the property of Brill Academic Publishers and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of the Philosophy of History holder: Brill Academic Publishers dt: @attributes: year: 2019 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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