What is a pragmatic realist?
Source:
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- Something to do with William James
Key ideas
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What does it mean to be a pragmatic realist?
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Meaning I do which produces the best results
- I do what makes me happy
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This gives me the flexibility to not be attached.
- I don’t have to stick to one thing
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I have values and principles
- But I’m willing to let go of something if I can feel that it doesn’t really make me happy
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Being able to give a bit here and there
- it’s not a never surrender program
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and it’s to make me happy.
- not to change the world naman
Links to sobriety
- This is the idea with sobriety too
- Where I’m not attached to any one thing
- I’m only willing to do what works
A related idea
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If this is true, you must try different things
- The only way this will work. Is if you’re willing to try new things.
- Because you’ll otherwise be stuck in a rut.
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It’s like when I was banging my head against a religious way of thinking.
- And that didn’t work
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So the ability to let go of an overly religious perspective
- and to admit that it wasn’t helping my sobriety, really was a big step
Pragmatic Idealist? or Pragmatic Realist?
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Pragmatic idealist is more interesting
- because this is a bit of a counter intuitive
- or it cancelled each other out
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Pragmatic Idealism naman is
- coined by John Dewey
- and adopted by mahatma ghandi
- Thus it must be what Martin Luther King Jr. practiced
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it’s a bit like utilitarianism
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You have to be willing to compromise somewhat
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you can’t be so rigid
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But you still have ideals?
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(I admit I’m probably not getting this 100% right.)
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But still it’s a nice little paradox to play around with.
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and that’s a fun thing to explore