Power Promotes Pragmatism

Power promotes pragmatism "In his inaugural address, Jefferson said:" We are all Republicans, we are all federalists. "But the greatest irony of the Virginia dynasty is by 1820, The party left and proved political proverbs. "POWER promotes pragmatism," the etymology comes from the Greek Plassein ("do, act, to execute"), pragmatism is "practical consequential doctrine is the doctrine of knowledge, meaning and value "It is defined as. The dynamic nature of politics is inseparable, a practical tendency for powerful people to plan actual results to benefit themselves.

True politics is power politics, and how power influences the internal and external conditions of the state. It is "practical", but consideration of power is normal: take strong what is able to do, but weak suffer from what they have to do. Even "democracy", "liberalism" or even "freedom" is considered a concept of ideology, real politics noticed to some extent the power needed to impose it on their own citizens or other countries Let's see. Russians do not need to learn von Lochau. Unlike many Western societies, the words "democracy", "freedom", or "civil rights" have a great political influence in these societies, the Russians are the only coins in the field I understand there is. Their attitude towards the Nazis and the change in the European power balance between 1936 and 1941 is a good example.

I continue to be inspired by Ronald Rolheiser's book "The Shattered Lantern". "Practicalism" in English comes from Greek utilityism and means "commercial". In Western thought, pragmatism is related to concepts such as efficiency, practicality, progress, and rationality. For the first time, pragmatism is synonymous with living in the West. As a philosophy, pragmatism is a lifestyle that evaluates the truth of things with real effects and applications. Truly effective things The test of truth is directly related to whether the idea has certain usefulness or actual profit. "If that goes well, it is a good thing and it was a good thing that it worked, it is a good thing. The ideal of pragmatism is the center of Western thought, which is deeply rooted in our educational system, the core of our technical society (Or someone) is impatient as it is impractical, useful and effective "(Lantern, 36)

The system we have now is by no means practical. In some distorted sensations it may be "practical" to maintain the status quo through people's pragmatism, but it kills our heroes, kills the Buddha, and completely restores the validity of this pragmatism It is time to reject. People's careers need to fully accept the quality of their ideas