Pragmatism
John Dewey · 1907 CE
Excerpt
“The most important thing is to keep inquiry alive and lively. (lecture VIII)”
Why the atlas keeps it
Eight lectures given at the Lowell Institute in November and December 1906 and published the following May. Dewey moves the question of meaning from reference to consequence and argues that the moral life is a method of inquiry rather than a code, which makes intellectual humility a methodological requirement.
Terms this text reaches for
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Moral status
ethicsThe property of counting as a party that can be owed something and can be wronged.
Moral luck
ethicsCircumstances outside your control that determine how moral you are judged to be.
Moral patient
ethicsAn entity that can be benefited or harmed but is not a moral agent.
Amor fati
ethicsLove of fate: to treat what happens as material to work with rather than to resist.
Dialogue
philosophyInquiry conducted by question and answer rather than by assertion.
Constitutional AI
technicalTraining a model to critique and revise its own outputs against a written set of principles.