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If Pragmatism was so great, what happened to it?

Jeff Carreira August 2, 2009Philosophy

Pragmatism was a powerful force in World Philosophy during the early decades of the twentieth century. Then the First World War erupted, followed by the Great Depression, and later the horror of the Second World …

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Jack KerouacPragmatismThomas Merton

Karma, Eastern Thought and the American Mind

Jeff Carreira March 21, 2009Philosophy

American Philosophy since Ralph Waldo Emerson has had a strong connection to Eastern Enlightenment traditions. Emerson was reading the Bagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, and Zoroastrian texts as they were being translated in the …

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Jack KerouacThomas Merton

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