William James and Emerson

Carpenter, Frederic I.

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“…Emerson was a close friend of the James family, and James gave the memorial address at the 1903 Emerson Centenary. As a newborn, William was taken by his father to Emerson to get the Sage of Concord's blessing (Carpenter 1939, 40). Needless to say, James grew up with Emerson and his thought as a large part of his life.…”

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confidence: 99%

James and Carnap on philosophical systems and the role of temperaments

Simpson

2023

Metaphilosophy

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The relationship between American pragmatism and logical empiricism is complicated at best. The received view is that by around the late 1930s or early 1940s pragmatism had been replaced, supplanted, or eclipsed by the younger and more logic‐oriented form of empiricism developed in interwar Vienna. Recently, however, this picture has been challenged, and this paper offers further reasons for thinking that the received view is inadequate. Through a critical examination of William James's Pragmatism and “The Sentiment of Rationality” and Rudolf Carnap's “Elimination of Metaphysics Through Logical Analysis of Language” and other works, the paper builds a case for the existence of a rather striking correspondence between the work of one of pragmatism's most vaunted figures and the thought of logical empiricism's most famous advocate. Not only were both philosophers interested in what might be called metaphilosophy or the psychology of philosophy, both held very similar deflationary views.

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James and Carnap on philosophical systems and the role of temperaments

Simpson

2023

Metaphilosophy

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“…Emerson devoted his life to evolve a multi-faceted view of himself and to expose the social injustices of 19th century American culture, castigate professionalism in the American academe, and expose philosophy's preoccupation with epistemology (West, 1989;Thayer, 1981). At their core, his ideas concerned notions that relate to pragmatism's action-oriented and holistic nature: 1) activity, flux, movement, and energy in the inseparability between the individual and natural world; and 2) an insatiable confidence in the power of human individualism and human action (Westbrook, 1992;West, 1989;Koopman, 2006;Levin, 1999;Pollock, 1958;Carpenter, 1939). Emerson and eventually Peirce, James, and Dewey engaged in developing pragmatism to contrast European-centric philosophy, which they felt did not adequately represent the American experience.…”

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Robust Action Strategies in a Connected, but Unequal World: Revisiting American Pragmatism for Social Justice-Focused Research in Information Systems

Levy¹,

Lanamäki²,

Hirschheim³

2020

CAIS

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In this paper, we elucidate robust action as a research framework for the information systems (IS) field. We contend robust action provides a suitable frame to conduct pragmatist research in IS and can be useful in researching the multi-faceted terrain of social justice. The robust action frame has its roots in pragmatism, and, moreover, given the history of American pragmatism as rooted in social justice, robust action can provide a suitable frame to confront broad-scale issues on a societal scale-a topic that little IS research has examined. We define robust action's components, illustrate its philosophical rooting in the pragmatist tradition, and show how one can use it.

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“…Frederic Carpenter indicates that Emerson loved both Hafiz and Saadi because they were joyful. And they were joyful because, trusting in themselves and in the fullness of life, and they had escaped from the ambush of fatalism (Carpenter, 1939). Len Gourgeon points out that Emerson comments in 1847, such is the only "man" I wish to see and to be.…”

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Comparison of Emerson and Hafiz Based on Claudio Guillen's Comparative Literary Theory of Influence

Noie

2019

birle, budapest. internation. research. and. critic. in. lingui

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The poetry of Khajeh Mohammad Hafiz Shirazi has vastly influenced the poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson, as many critics have noted but have not demonstrated. Emerson is an American poet whose work reflects the influences of Persian poets, among which that of Hafiz is remarkable. The influence of Hafiz on Emerson includes memorable images, themes and motifs. While one can argue that this influence was indirect, it is obvious from the closeness of certain similarities, from Emerson’s intimate knowledge of Hafiz’s poetry, and from his love for Persian poetry, that the influence was more direct than otherwise. Although Emerson knew German and read Hafiz in German translations yet, he embarked on translating the poems of Hafiz in English in order to master Hafiz’s poetry and to introduce him to American readers. These translations themselves are another proof of the claim of influence of Hafiz on Emerson. The methodology of this article is to set the poems of the two poets over against one another and study them watchfully in order to demonstrate the influence of the precursor poet on the belated poet. Therefore the sources of familiarity of Emerson with Hafiz must not be forgotten and should be brought to the surface.

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William James and Emerson

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James and Carnap on philosophical systems and the role of temperaments

James and Carnap on philosophical systems and the role of temperaments

Robust Action Strategies in a Connected, but Unequal World: Revisiting American Pragmatism for Social Justice-Focused Research in Information Systems

Comparison of Emerson and Hafiz Based on Claudio Guillen's Comparative Literary Theory of Influence

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