Word: pragmatist
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...Shih once said that philosophy was his profession, literature his entertainment, politics his obligation. It was an understatement. As a philosopher Hu Shih is one of the outstanding disciples of the ramified pragmatist, John Dewey. Born in Shanghai, the son of a geographer, Hu Shih was an intellectual prodigy as a child. As a teacher of English during the dark period before the Chinese Revolution, he grew increasingly morbid and dissipated, was once jailed for brawling with a policeman. He came out of this phase to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to Cornell (where he was called "Doc"), went...
...Pragmatist From Kansas. The evidence of Clapper's levelheaded common sense shows not only in his column but in his attitude toward his trade. An isolationist until Munich, Clapper was roundly berated by some readers when he thereafter veered toward Roosevelt's foreign policy. Said he: "I try to learn from events...
...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...