The Metaphysical Club

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In 1872, a group of men that included future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., father of modern psychology William James, and eccentric polymath Charles Sanders Peirce, formed a philosophical society, called the "Metaphysical Club," to exchange and discuss ideas.

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0:00.0	We're at McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:10.8	In 1872, a group of men that included future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
0:14.8	Jr., father of modern psychology William James, and eccentric polymath Charles Saunders
0:18.9	Purse formed a philosophical society called the Metaphysical Club to exchange and discuss
0:23.0	ideas.
0:24.0	While very little is known about how this conversational club was conducted over its nine months of
0:27.3	life, we do know that each of its individual members made significant contributions to
0:31.8	uniquely American philosophy called pragmatism, and that pragmatism would in turn greatly
0:36.3	influence everything from legal theory to education.
0:39.0	My guest day profiles the lives and thinking of each of these interesting men and his
0:42.2	whole surprise winning book the Metaphysical Club, the story of ideas in America.
0:46.4	His name is Louis Manand, he's professor of English at Harvard, and today we have a conversation
0:50.0	about what the philosophy of pragmatism is about, why Holmes, James, and Purse, as well as
0:54.0	the intellectual John Dewey arrived at embraced and forwarded its principles and how pragmatism
0:58.6	shaped American life between the Civil War and World War I.
1:01.7	We inter-conversation with why pragmatism fell out of favor and whether it remains salient
1:05.1	today.
1:06.1	After shows over, check out our show notes at aum.islashmetaphysicalclub.
1:21.4	We are at the Metaphysical Club, the story of ideas in America.
1:32.3	This book takes a deep dive into changes in American philosophy and thinking that influenced
1:40.7	the law, influence how we thought about civil rights and freedoms and etc.
1:45.9	All this happened between the Civil War and World War I.
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