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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Aug 3, 2010

Can Atheists Be Good People?

CAN atheists be good people? Before I answer the question, I want you to notice what this question implies. Having honest doubts that not believing in God can turn someone into a bad person implies a particular understanding of morality, one that requires a “lender of last…

Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Jun 19, 2010

On Death

DOES pragmatism have anything to tell us about death? Certainly; in principle, the pragmatic approach can be applied to any belief whose alteration would have a practical impact in the way we live. Our beliefs about death fall clearly within the category of types of beliefs that affect our behavior here, on…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

May 28, 2010

Dismantling the Bomb, Part 4: Pragmatism vs. Fundamentalism

IN a series of older posts I presented the idea that fundamentalism’s backbone –the epistemological conviction that a belief gets the world as it really is — was successfully diffused by our modern liberal societies thanks to…

Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Oct 24, 2010

Pragmatism and Progress

THE easiest way to understand what pragmatism really means is to think about it as the philosophical encapsulation of America’s cultural driving force: a relentless belief in progress. Pragmatism can be viewed as a philosophical method that took America’s single most important value and…

Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Mar 15, 2010

The Great Mutation

WE might not be fully conscious of it, but living in a globalized, multicultural and digitally-interconnected society is producing a very particular crop of human beings. The overexposure to a decentralized multiplicity of ways of living life has completed a mutation that not even radical minds…

Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Feb 3, 2010

On Moral Progress

CAN we still talk about moral progress from a perspective that argues for the uselessness of morality? As paradoxical as it may sound, I actually think we can but as usual, I will need to make some redefinitions here and there.

Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Aug 29, 2010

The Task of Our Generation

There is something very peculiar about our generation. While most of us embrace the core set of values inherited and developed since the Enlightenment –democracy, human rights, freedom of conscience, institutional fairness, equality before the law and rationality — we have become…

Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Apr 9, 2010

Science and Pragmatism

As I have explained in previous posts, I understand pragmatism as a theory of truth that suggests that what we call “the truth” is not the set of statements that have been proved to describe reality as it really is, but simply the body of beliefs that allow us to better cope with our…

Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Dec 2, 2010

It Is Not About What We Believe In; It Is About How We Believe In It

You do not have to be a philosopher to see that your actions are usually driven by your beliefs. Our beliefs are the catalysts of our actions; from simple day-to-day decisions on what to wear based on your…

Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Jan 10, 2010

Dismantling the Bomb, Part 3: Tolerance and Fundamentalism

TWO POSTS ago I proposed a very particular definition of fundamentalism as the byproduct of our conviction that some of our beliefs capture the world as it really is. Subsequently, I explained how an increasingly open society…

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