Sidney Morgenbesser on the American Pragmatists: Section 1
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@JackSafferyRowe Thank you! I've been trying to figure out whose music the intro is from. Can you tell me the name of the piece?
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@ROBERTetFRANCOIS I was gonna say, this guy makes a dog's dinner out explaining the pragmatist tradition. You can see Magee getting exasperated that he has to keep him on track. They should have asked Hilary Putnam to do another one - his philosophy of science interview was excellent.
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Have you READ Peirce? Compared to the grandiloquent jibber-jabber Peirce lays down, Morgenbesser is speaking in the plainest terms ever.
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You are conflating Leninism, Stalinism and Maoism with communism.
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Why the Shostakovich intro music?
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The liberal political theorists and economists were nonexistent in Germany. They were driven out of Bavaria during their communist revolution, by Bismarck and his welfare state, and by the Marxian German historical school (later became pro-fascist), which was the intellectual center of continental Europe. The emergence of the Nazi party was the result of an inter-socialist power struggle. 3 parties (Marxists, social democrats, and Nazi's) argued over which form of socialism was superior.
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Communism and fascism are mere extensions of the socialist doctrine, which is more of a mentality than anything else. This doctrine claims that individuals are merely components of the larger picture (society), and that they are unable to do what's in societies best interest because they are too narrow-sighted. Thus, individuals must be driven into action so that the machine (society) can function 'properly.' This doctrine is diametrically opposed to liberalism and spontaneous order.
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too right
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lol!
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Angk0rwat 3 years ago 25
All of these videos are wonderful, and fun to watch. It was very kind of you to post them! Morgenbesser, however, does a terrible job of explaining the concepts of these philosophers. If only Rorty had been getting the media attention he had later in life--his very straight-forward, sarsaparilla approach to elaboration is much more akin to that of Peirce and James than Morgenbesser's lazy, needlessly ambiguous ramblings.
ROBERTetFRANCOIS 3 years ago 10