Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays — John Shaqi
Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical EssaysPeirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders)
Philosophy
Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders)
Metaphysics; Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914 -- Bibliography; Pragmatism; Science -- Philosophy
4. Man’s Glassy Essence 238
5. Evolutionary Love 267
SUPPLEMENTARY ESSAY—The Pragmatism of Peirce, by John Dewey 301
INTRODUCTION
Many and diverse are the minds that form the philosophic community.
There are, first and foremost, the great masters, the system builders
who rear their stately palaces towering to the moon. These architectonic
minds are served by a varied host of followers and auxiliaries. Some
provide the furnishings to make these mystic mansions of the mind more
commodious, while others are engaged in making their façades more
imposing. Some are busy strengthening weak places or building
much-needed additions, while many more are engaged in defending these
structures against the impetuous army of critics who are ever eager and
ready to pounce down upon and destroy all that is new or bears the
mortal mark of human imperfection. There are also the philologists,
those who are in a more narrow sense scholars, who dig not only for
facts or roots, but also for the stones which may serve either for
building or as weapons of destruction. Remote from all these, however,
are the intellectual rovers who, in their search for new fields, venture
into the thick jungle that surrounds the little patch of cultivated
science. They are not gregarious creatures, these lonely pioneers; and
in their wanderings they often completely lose touch with those who
tread the beaten paths. Those that return to the community often speak
strangely of strange things; and it is not always that they arouse
sufficient faith for others to follow them and change their trails into
high roads.
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