CHAPTER 33. Original Sin, Natural Law, and Politics (1956)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction: What I Have Learned by Rereading These Essays 1
4. PART I Prolegomena
5. Introduction 3
6. CHAPTER 1 Prologue to A Philosophy of Culture (2002) 5
7. CHAPTER 2 Philosophy and Man: An Exhortation (1955) 9
8. CHAPTER 3 The Social Role of Philosophy (1952) 14
9. CHAPTER 4. New Horizons in Philosophy (1960) 21
10. PART II History
11. Introduction 31
12. CHAPTER 5 A Plea for an Analytic Philosophy of History (1953) 33
13. CHAPTER 6 Historical Relativism and the Evaluation of Histories (2003) 40
14. CHAPTER 7 Historical Inevitability (1956) 51
15. CHAPTER 8. Tolstoy the Empirical Fox (2003) 56
16. PART III Religion, Education, and Politics
17. Introduction 69
18. CHAPTER 9. John Dewey: A Great Philosopher of Education (1966) 71
19. CHAPTER 10. Religion, Politics, and the Higher Learning (1954) 74
20. CHAPTER 11. Religious Commitment and Higher Education (1957) 81
21. CHAPTER 12. The University in Transition (1966) 88
22. CHAPTER 13. Philosophy in a Utopian Institute for Advanced Study (1989) 91
23. PART IV. Analyticity, Morality, Causality, and Liberty
24. Introduction 95
25. CHAPTER 14. The Analytic and the Synthetic: An Untenable Dualism (1950) 97
26. CHAPTER 15. Ontological Clarity and Semantic Obscurity (1951) 107
27. CHAPTER 16. On the Church-Frege Solution of the Paradox of Analysis (1948) 112
28. CHAPTER 17. Oughts and Cans (1979) 116
29. CHAPTER 18. Causation and Action (1969) 121
30. CHAPTER 19. Hart and Honoré on Causation in the Law (1960) 130
31. CHAPTER 20. The Question of Free Will: Some Preliminary Remarks (1993) 134
32. PART V. Pragmatism
33. Introduction 141
34. CHAPTER 21. Harvard’s Philosophical Heritage (1957) 143
35. CHAPTER 22. Experiment and Necessity in Dewey’s Philosophy (1959) 149
36. CHAPTER 23. Value and Obligation in Dewey and Lewis (1949) 160
37. CHAPTER 24. Desire and Desirability: A Rejoinder to a Posthumous Reply by John Dewey (1996) 167
38. CHAPTER 25. Peirce’s Summum Bonum and the Ethical Views of C. I. Lewis and John Dewey (1999) 178
39. CHAPTER 26. Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine’s Holism (1986) 186
40. CHAPTER 27. Holistic Pragmatism and Ethics (2002) 199
41. CHAPTER 28. The Psychologism of Hume and Arithmetical Truth (2003) 211
42. PART VI. History of Ideas
43. Introduction 215
44. CHAPTER 29. Why Annalists of Ideas Should Be Analysts of Ideas (1975) 217
45. CHAPTER 30. The Revolt against Formalism in American Social Thought of the Twentieth Century (1947) 227
46. CHAPTER 31. Pragmatism and the Revolt against Formalism: Revising Some Doctrines of William James (1986) 243
47. CHAPTER 32. The Politics of Epistemology (1989) 255
48. CHAPTER 33. Original Sin, Natural Law, and Politics (1956) 270
49. CHAPTER 34. Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Progressive Era (1988) 284
50. CHAPTER 35. The American Intellectual versus the American City (1961) 299
51. CHAPTER 36. The Philosopher and the Metropolis in America (1963) 310
52. PART VII. Philosophers
53. INTRODUCTION 321
54. CHAPTER 37. William James (1986) 323
55. CHAPTER 38. The Later Years of George Santayana (1963) 331
56. CHAPTER 39. English Philosophy at Midcentury: An American’s Impressions (1951) 333
57. CHAPTER 40. Memories of G. E. Moore (1959) 339
58. CHAPTER 41. W. V. Quine (2001) 344
59. Acknowledgments 349
60. Index 353