Democracy and Moral Conflict: Pragmatist Proposals
Abstract
Charles S. Peirce, founder of the pragmatist tradition in philosophy did not articulate a set of social bearings drawn from the premises of what he called "the method of science". However, philosophers like Robert B. Talisse and Cheryl Misak have developed theories about "epistemic perfectionism" which reconcile a pragmatist substantive view of democracy with the demands of the problem of pluralism and de vibrant and seemingly unsolvable moral conflicts. In this text I will endeavour at some extent to show in what degree the efforts of these philosophers are successful to fit the bill and also whether is consistent with Peirce's pragmatism. Without a doubt, the pragmatistitic realism supposes, regardless of necessary further deepening, a truly new alternative to the classic interpretation about pragmatism in democracy spread by John Dewey.References
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