Fato, valor, significação, pragmatismo

Arthur  Araújo

doi:10.23925/2316-5278.2023v24i1:e60854

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Arthur Araújo Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

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https://doi.org/10.23925/2316-5278.2023v24i1:e60854

Abstract

considering the debate in the modern and contemporary contexts of philosophy, I explore the pragmatic response to fact-value dualism. In this sense, considering that pragmatism regards mind and world as parts of an experiential continuum and humans as social beings, I draw attention to the “requiredness” of meaning and value in practices of living. Tracing a parallel between William James and Wolfgang Köhler regarding the notion of “interest”, as a form of requiredness, the central idea that I work out in this paper is that “interest” makes difference in some contexts of experience and then it leaves space for meaning and value in multiple levels of life. In terms of James’s pragmatism, as an alternative to the traditional dualities (fact-value, theory-practice, knowledge-reality, and so on), this pluralistic view supposes that each form of interest stands for condition and genesis of meaning and value in human practices.

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