Neopragmatism comes in flavors. For ETTanism, process is part of the result; it benchmarks the result. Process "becomes" result. The notion goes beyond Whiteheadean process philosophy, in that it is more wholistic and transcends (non-metaphysically) the becoming/being dualism.
One can't help but being liberal in order to have a proper life in modern complex society, especially the one that is hitech-gadget-ridden. Being entirely anti-liberalism or anti-libertarianism seems like telling other:"I'm giving up my liberties and other constitutional rights!" On the other hand, most people don't like being labeled as an extremist, nihilist, a pedophile or a (devilized) witch. This is why the neopragmatic liberalism with the following features has to come into the scene:
1. Ideology-less: Focus on proper methodology rather than universal ideology (the metaphysical one).
2. Creativism.
3. Contractarian liberalism of maximum liberties that end at others' liberties (Rawls).
4. Properly healthy and healthy properness.
5. Anti-reactionary fairness with frugal and prudent law-making process, just judicial review, antitrust, of best possible quality evidence, awards and punishments, civil and criminal law, jurisprudence, prohibition of unfair&/non-public-regarding influences of communities/groups (Cass Sunstein), plus proper protections of the weaks. Justice is the major ethical issue to consider.
6. Factism: facts or reliable statistics based decision-making process.
7. Principle-centered with proper public/private non-dialectic dichotomy.
8. Proper public powers definition, anti-nepotism and other proper measures.
9. Neo-internationalism with stricter international antitrust mechanism including political powers. There must also be proper control of international arms trade, security firms and other surveillance related businesses. Prevention and correcting settings against profiting from others misfortune.
10. Neonationalism and national constitutionalism.
11. De-ontologism.
12. Neonaturalism
13. Neo-neologism
14. Self-criticism
15. Heartism
16. Neopragmatic interpretivism
17. Sustainable reasonableness
18. Post-structuralism
If one really need something simple, I would unsatisfactory or over-simplistically say it is a reflexion or attempt to deal with all problems arise from pragmatism and utilitarianism, especially those materialistic ones. Thus, this put an end to the future possibility of never ending prefixes of "neo"s.
About Me
- ETTan
- A proud law graduate who never practice law. Life long pursuer , creator and examiner of philosophical questions and answers.
16 comments:
Better interpret interpretations as just interpretations in its specific context. Whatever beyond that is likely to be personal bias or misunderstanding.
Plagiarism can hurts one's subliminal self-esteem badly.
Being critical in digital age is vitally important as there are technologies to change data and information in real time. Trust not your perceptions unless evidence is concrete. Quality of evidence is in direct proportion of quality of justice. Digital contents are weak evidence. Netizens can be easily framed. And, there are self-righteous people who love to turn things into witch-hunts. Mere possession should not be good enough for prosecution.
You can't blame a presenter for other's comments that are affected by inferiority complex, bias, self-interest and credulous of other's misrepresentations.
Extreme hypocricy is one of the worst enemies and threats of peace among international communities.
Dualism is inevitable in a principle-centered life especially the public/private dichotomy. Public/private wholism can prove fatal in key public issues, e.g. property rights.
Real treasons are those, disregarding facts, blindly emotional, irrational, self-interested, purposive or reactionary behaviors that deal a grievious blow to a society's long term health.
Benchmarks for academy works in information age must not depend on volume but potentials and effects.
Free trade? What?
Real free trade never exist in modern society. It has only face value but what really happened. The controlling practices are always there. Even if the law is of verisimilitude, due to local interests, customers are not.
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