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To: cornelis
My view is that the prevailing philosophy is American pragmatism.

Dewey-style pragmatism? In the academy or in the population?

My concern is with academia, particularly philosophy departments. "Deconstructionism" seems to be the current fashion. My fear is that this will become the popular conventional wisdom in the years to come.

56 posted on 09/09/2003 10:39:12 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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To: Aquinasfan
No doubt Allan Bloom's Closing of the American Mind gives a much better assessment of academia and students than I ever could.
57 posted on 09/09/2003 11:05:01 AM PDT by cornelis
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