Pragmatism Isn’t Just A Character Trait, It’s A School Of Philosophy (Who Knew?)

This “distinctively American philosophy … emerged in the early decades of the 20th century in the work of William James, John Dewey and C.S. Peirce. Pragmatism may or may not be an ethical program … but it always emphasizes the resources of historically given institutions and practices and de-emphasizes the role played in our lives by supra-historical essentialisms (God, faith, truth, reason, brute fact, overarching theory).”