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and produced two giants: Peirce and James |
 21/09/97 |
 L'Amérique commence par courtiser Platon et Hegel mais rapidement elle les abandonne et créée des Clubs KANT  |
"In all of this, they believed that they were developing KANT's notion of "reason" (as beyond understanding), and as we have seen this is Emerson's project as well, (p. 477)... There is a sense in which James is more KANTian than KANT... after KANT, it was no longer possible to discount the role of the observer in knowledge, (p. 674)... "In general James's discussion of religion follows in a KANTian vein. KANT had reversed the relation of religion and ethics, defining the religious ideas by the demands of ethics instead of conversely... (Extracts from "A History of Philosophy in America", Flower and Murphey, 1977, Longman) |
Josiah
Royce (1855-1916):
"His KANTian
heritage
is evident in his insistence that knowledge results not from the given
but from the operation of the mind upon the given, (p.697)
Torey
(teacher of Dewey)'appears
to have been an unregenerated (an un-Hegelianised) KANTian,
and to have taught the 'Critique of Pure Reason' at first from his
notes...
Morris,
another teacher, was responsive... to an authentic, that is, KANT
for
KANT's
sake... Royce
had taken a degree under him in 1878..."
Lewis,
(1883-1964), well illustrate that the Cambridge Pragmatists were KANT's
children: "KANT
compelled
me. KANT
attracted
me also by his intellectual integrity and by the massiveness and
articulation
of his structure. The evidence of KANT
in
my thinking ever since is unmistakable... (p. 893).
