{"id":1708,"date":"2013-07-18T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T05:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2013-07-17T22:32:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T03:32:14","slug":"1708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"ABSOLUTES ARE ABSOLUTELY OUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2c\/WilliamJames_JosiahRoyce_ca1910_Harvard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"File:WilliamJames JosiahRoyce ca1910 Harvard.png\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/2c\/WilliamJames_JosiahRoyce_ca1910_Harvard.png\" width=\"578\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For those so interested, here is a fascinating and important essay on &#8220;pragmatism.&#8221;\u00a0 Pragmatism has many varieties and is easily misunderstood.\u00a0 It does pose a challenge to the Christian faith or to anything that purports to have a fixed truth.\u00a0 As Walter Lippmann said, &#8220;&#8230;our primary care must be to keep the habits of mind flexible and adapted to the movement of real life&#8230;&#8221;\u00a0 In other words, there are no fixed rules or beliefs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>William James, the good looking fella on the left, is the focus of this piece:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/jameskloppenberg\/publications\/jamess-pragmatism-and-american-culture-1907-2007\">http:\/\/scholar.harvard.edu\/jameskloppenberg\/publications\/jamess-pragmatism-and-american-culture-1907-2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those so interested, here is a fascinating and important essay on &#8220;pragmatism.&#8221;\u00a0 Pragmatism has many varieties and is easily misunderstood.\u00a0 It does pose a challenge to the Christian faith or to anything that purports to have a fixed truth.\u00a0 As Walter Lippmann said, &#8220;&#8230;our primary care must be to keep the habits of mind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}