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Oh the Irony...
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5/31/2016 12:01:52 PM Posted: 2 years ago So I was reading James' lectures on pragmatism today. In the beginning he contrasts traits of what he calls "The Tender-Minded" and "The Tough-Minded".
The Tender-Minded Rationalistic (going by principles) Intellectuallistic Idealistic Optimistic Religious Free Willist Monistic Dogmatical The Tough-Minded Empiricist (going by facts) Sensationalistic Materialistic Pessimistic Irreligious Fatalistic Pluralistic Sceptical He uses Intellectualistic/ Sensationalistic and Monistic/Pluralistic in an uncommon sense. The first is basically equivalent to rationalism/empiricism, the second is about a kind of Platonic/Nominalistic divide (starting from wholes and universals vs. starting from the parts). He writes "Each of you probably knows some well-marked example of each type, and you know what each type thinks of the example on the other side of the line. They have a low opinion of each other." Notice anything? He basically described the sterotypes of modern day theists and atheists, but he wrote this in 1906, 110 years ago! I find it almost hilarious how people have changed so little in all these years. |
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5/31/2016 1:19:49 PM Posted: 2 years ago How is that "ironic?"
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5/31/2016 1:24:42 PM Posted: 2 years ago At 5/31/2016 1:19:49 PM, tejretics wrote: There is a, in my eyes, huge divergence between how I expected things to be and how they really are. That is called situational irony I believe. |
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5/31/2016 7:06:01 PM Posted: 2 years ago And people are supposed to fall into one of the two categories?
I'll see you on the Dark Side of the Moon. So much has gone, and little is new. DDO Risk King |
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5/31/2016 9:46:12 PM Posted: 2 years ago At 5/31/2016 7:06:01 PM, 1harderthanyouthink wrote: Of course not, but it is as James says, "[e]ach of you probably knows some well-marked example of each type". |
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6/1/2016 1:19:59 AM Posted: 2 years ago At 5/31/2016 7:06:01 PM, 1harderthanyouthink wrote: There's only two kinds of people in the world, those who think there are only two kinds of people in the world, and those who don't. "It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive." " C. W. Leadbeater |