Kant's agenda was to limit knowledge to make room for belief. Pragmatism is Kant on steroids: it reduces conceptual knowledge to zero, and gives religion all the room in the world. Pragmatism is the ultimate handmaiden of theocracy. And today, unfortunately, it is this combination of Pragmatism and theocracy that has become America's de-facto national political ideology.
Happy Independence Day!
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*Editor's Note: I will be taking tomorrow off from blogging for the
holiday.*
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I highly recommend taking about 15 minutes to read (or reread) Ayn Rand's...
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