Exit line

What a lovely end-of-semester gift from a student in Philosophy of Happiness. Volume II includes the transcendent 1910 letter to Henry Adams I sent them off with: " I am so happy I can stand it no longer!"

https://bsky.app/profile/osopher.bsky.social/post/3m7rz2pr6ok2c

I Am An American Philosopher: Patricia Shields

Pragmatism is very much about the world of practice where people live and work. It seems that most philosophers—even American Philosophers—dwell in the world of ideas. I have come to see that I have a mediator role as a philosopher. I mediate and translate the ideas of pragmatism to people who live in the world of practice filled with problematic situations. I can translate and apply philosophical ideas in ways that are understood and used in the world of practice.

https://american-philosophy.org/i-am-an-american-philosopher-patricia-shields/

Henry James: the horror

"The 'new' America that Henry James encounters [in 1904], as he roams over it at the dawn of the American Century, leaves him little less than horrified." —John Banville https://go.nybooks.com/4a4bKwh

Dewey’s faith

 Barbara Stengel's contribution to the John Dewey Society Democracy Initiative. She contemplates how fear is operating against collective community action, and argues in favor of having a "working faith" in human nature to ground us. 

Stengel writes: "There is a critical truth in all this that John Dewey understood clearly, that was evident in the United States of 1939. Fear can't ground a community; it takes faith. The required faith is not a faith in the divine but a faith in the oh-so-human. The faith Dewey calls out and calls forth is a "working faith" in the possibilities of human nature, in the capacities that humans possess to address one another without "fear or favor.""

A better American dream

If there is an America on the other side of this, it will have to be a different country, a better one, based not on the restoration of hopes that people my age once had, but on a broader sense of the future, a better American dream…
Timothy Snyder

https://www.threads.com/@thetimothysnyder/post/DRqA1GLEr34?xmt=AQF0wuoS99qC1fBBb4P4qseWehZtehP0KB63sCbHIByzDCJBopXW9QXYFzbeaC46YBEEoV4P&slof=1

Perpetual gratitude

Ford’s Frank on Thanksgiving

American Culture Minor

 American Culture Minor 

Philosophy and Religious Studies 

Advisor: Phil Oliver 

The 18-hour interdisciplinary minor in American Culture is intended for students who want to explore a variety of disciplines as a way of thinking about U.S. culture. This minor is ideal for students who have wide-ranging interests. It is also an excellent choice for students who are politically engaged and want to understand contemporary U.S. culture and its problems. It is especially suited for students who wish to highlight the liberal arts element of their education. 

Interdisciplinary Minors 

Interdisciplinary minors require the student to complete a minimum of 15 to 21 hours from a list of specific courses. Unless otherwise noted, a student may take no more than 6 hours of courses from a single department until he or she surpasses the required minimum number of hours necessary for completing the minor. Exceptions to this rule may be found within the discussions of several of the minors. In most cases, a student is also limited to just 3 hours of credit toward the minor in the same department or discipline in which he or she is taking a major. Students must fulfill all departmental prerequisites for any course within an interdisciplinary minor. In some cases, advisors may approve course substitutions within these program requirements. 

Required Courses (6 hours)  

HIST 3040 - Topics in American Cultural History 3 credit hours 

OR  

HIST 4740 - American Cultural and Intellectual History 3 credit hours  

ENGL 3310 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature 3 credit hours 

OR  

ENGL 3320 - Twentieth-Century American Literature 3 credit hours 

OR  

ENGL 3360 - Multicultural Literature of the United States 3 credit hours Electives (12 hours) In addition to the core courses in history and English, students are required to take 12 semester hours of upperdivision courses chosen in consultation with the minor advisor. Please see the advisor for a list of approved courses for the minor.

Fwd: Henry Jackman

I Am An American Philosopher: Henry Jackman

-An Interview Series with John Capps-

https://american-philosophy.org/i-am-an-american-philosopher-henry-jackman/

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Kierkegaard on possibility

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!"

— Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or