Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Dec 18, 2011

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What Is Pragmatism Good For?

BEFORE one can truly understand what pragmatism is, one needs to be aware of what pragmatism is good for and more importantly perhaps, what pragmatism is not good for. As I will insist here, pragmatism is actually a rather narrow and specifically defined method. Understanding…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Sep 22, 2011

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Pragmatic Moral Relativism

THERE is no denying that moral relativism has a bad reputation. As I will try to show in this post, this ominous notoriety is, for the most part, the product of a broad misunderstanding about what the word “relative” means. Moreover, I will explain that when viewed from a pragmatic…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Apr 18, 2011

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A Pragmatic Defense of Moral Relativism

IT is hard to deny that the question regarding the status of our moral values has significant implications beyond mere philosophical speculation. A human being that takes his own moral system as an objectively established set of moral values can in many…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Jul 26, 2011

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Unlocking Empathy

THE rise of the internet and the recent exponential growth of social networks have got a lot of commentators excited about the impact that this process of “global wiring” could have over human empathy. The basic premise is quite simple: greater interconnectivity means greater opportunities to put…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Jan 23, 2011

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A Practical Approach to Religion

AS a pragmatist, I cannot help but to roll my eyes every time I get asked about the existence or non-existence of god. I can certainly give you reasons why believing in god’s existence can be a good or a bad idea in a society as the one we live in, but I refuse to get…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Jun 2, 2011

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Beyond Toleration

THERE is no doubt that Political Liberalism is responsible for steering the Western world away from the path of bitter sectarian conflicts, tyranny and civil war and into the path of sustainable political stability and democracy. Orchestrated by Locke and Montesquieu, crystallized politically by…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Dec 1, 2011

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Freedom in a Plural and Interconnected World

WHEN discussing the concept of freedom,the classic distinction between “negative” and “positive”freedom is usually a good place to start. For those not familiar with this distinction, “negative” freedom deals with the absence of external obstacles or…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Oct 19, 2011

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Let’s Take Morality Out of the Closet

MORALITY has been living in the closet for over three centuries. Back in the fierce days after theReformation, a stringent “don’t ask don’t tell” system was ushered in to get us out of the ideological bloodbath. The deal was brilliant and simple: if you want to…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Nov 13, 2011

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Part 2: Let’s Take Morality Out of the Closet

THE intellectual struggle against fundamentalism is the main motivation behind the effort of dragging morality out of the closet of our autonomous consciousnesses and into the social sphere. The liberal notion of the autonomous moral individual who…

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Francisco Mejia Uribe in Postmodern Perspective

Mar 23, 2011

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On Rationality

MOST people believe that what makes human beings rational is a particular mental faculty that allows us to distinguish truth from error or that enables us to make optimal decisions given a set of preferences and beliefs. If you ask a philosopher, he would probably describe this mental faculty as a…

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