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It is an ideology... Pragmatism sees no fundamental difference between practical and theoretical reason, nor any ontological difference between facts and values. Both facts and values have cognitive content: knowledge is what we should believe; values are hypotheses about what is good in action. Pragmatist ethics is broadly humanist because it sees no ultimate test of morality beyond what matters for us as humans. Good values are those for which we have good reasons, viz. the Good Reasons approach....The Good Reasons approach is a meta-ethical theory that ethical conduct is justified if the actor has good reasons for that conduct. The Good Reasons approach is not opposed to ethical theory per se, but is antithetical to wholesale justifications of morality and stresses that our moral conduct requires no further ontological or other fundament beyond concrete justifications.Political ideologies have two dimensions:Goals: how society should workMethods: the most appropriate ways to achieve the ideal arrangement.How do you differentiate between the "practical" and the "ideological"?Did you teach students to use the same method?Clearly you think it will only make us all "equally poor" if done "ideologically" (Marx & Engels) but not if we do it "pragmatically" (Dewey & Peirce). You do support the forced redistribution of wealth - and - consider the redistribution of wealth to be a justifiable use of government force. It is a contradiction to claim a desire for equality "under the law, no one gets special privileges" while simultaneously supporting the forced redistribution of wealth.
It is an ideology...
Pragmatism sees no fundamental difference between practical and theoretical reason, nor any ontological difference between facts and values. Both facts and values have cognitive content: knowledge is what we should believe; values are hypotheses about what is good in action. Pragmatist ethics is broadly humanist because it sees no ultimate test of morality beyond what matters for us as humans. Good values are those for which we have good reasons, viz. the Good Reasons approach.
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The Good Reasons approach is a meta-ethical theory that ethical conduct is justified if the actor has good reasons for that conduct. The Good Reasons approach is not opposed to ethical theory per se, but is antithetical to wholesale justifications of morality and stresses that our moral conduct requires no further ontological or other fundament beyond concrete justifications.
Political ideologies have two dimensions:
How do you differentiate between the "practical" and the "ideological"?
Did you teach students to use the same method?
Clearly you think it will only make us all "equally poor" if done "ideologically" (Marx & Engels) but not if we do it "pragmatically" (Dewey & Peirce). You do support the forced redistribution of wealth - and - consider the redistribution of wealth to be a justifiable use of government force.
It is a contradiction to claim a desire for equality "under the law, no one gets special privileges" while simultaneously supporting the forced redistribution of wealth.
