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an aesthete ... The ironic, playful intellectual is a desirable character-type
... (FMR.,
pp.16, lS).
SH:
Mr. Peirce?
CSP:
We remark three classes of men. The first consists of those for
whom the chief thing is the qualities of feelings. These men create art.
The second consists of the practical men ... The third class consists of
men to whom nothing seems great but reason.... Those are the natural
scientific men ... (1.43).
It
is infinitely better that men devoid of genuine scientific curiosity
should not barricade the road of science with empty books and embar–
rassing assumptions ... (1.64S).
RR:
Intellectual gifts - intelligence, judgment, curiosity, imagination, ...
kinks in the brain ... provide these gifts ... (CIS, pp.187-8).
CSP:
There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from think–
ing as other people think ...
RR:
As we look about at the manly, aggressive and businesslike academics
of our ... time, ... the well-funded professor[s], jetting home after a day
spent advising men of power ... [we see that the] American academic
mind has long since discovered the joy of making its own special enter–
prise "greater and better organized and a mightier engine in the general
life" (Cp,p.6\).
CSP:
Wherever there is a large class of academic professors who are pro–
vided wi th good incomes and looked up to as gentlemen, scientific inquiry
must languish. Wherever the bureaucrats are the more learned class, the
case will be still worse (l.Sl).
SH:
And how do you see the relation of philosophy to society?
RR:
Pragmatism must be defined as the claim that the function of inquiry
is, in Bacon's words, to "relieve and benefit the condition of man" ...
(EHO,
p.27).
CSP:
[A] modern reader who is not in awe of [Bacon's] grandiloquence
is chiefly struck by the inadequacy of his view of scientific procedure....
"He wrote on science like a Lord Chancellor," indeed, as Harvey, a gen–
uine man of science said (S.361).
RR:
Philosophy [is]
in the service
of democratic poli tics ... (CIS, p.196). We
pragmatists commend our antiessentialism and antilogocentrism on the
ground of its harmony with the practices and aims of a democratic soci–
ety ...
(EHO,
p.13S).
