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.
An Upcoming Challenge for Secularists on Ethics
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*[T]hey've never faced the fact that while they've rejected so many other
doctrines of their childhood preachers, altruism is the one they've never
been wi...
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