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>>729921
Hardline zealotry is the only way to get things done and is therefore, paradoxically, pragmatic.

>>7299215
I am.
You're a retard if you're not a pragmatist in the 21st century.

Why aren't you an X ideologue? is a troubling meme because it insinuates that you need to be an ideologue at all.

>>7299215
>mfw susan haack's hateboner for rorty

>>7299215
>>7299723
>i only do thing if it directly benefits me and my goals

I am. Rorty's right.

>>7299743
What does anyone think of her criticisms of Rorty?

because I'm a pragmaticist

>>7299777
every time

pathetic ideation

>>7299215
"It's all very well in theory but it doesn't work in practice."
Sidney Morgenbesser

>>7299738
>implying nihilism isn't an ideology

It's spooks all the way down anon

>>7299830

nobody mentioned nihilism

>>7299834
You're right, that was a misleading label for "the ideology of not having an ideology"

Nihilism just sounds better

>>7299830
Stirner is a nihilist though.

>>7299851
and he recognized his own inability to be completely free from spooks

I'm just trying to make the point that "not having an ideology" is essentially an ideology

It's semantic nonsense that makes no logical sense (like "can God create a rock so heavy even God cannot lift it" or "This town has a barber who shaves everyone unable to shave themselves")

>>7299874
I misinterpreted your post, I agree fully tbh.

>>7299215
Why would I listen to a fat person?

It is impossible to not be a pragmatist. All beliefs serve purposes of the believer; they satisfy psychological needs such as certainty consistency. Sometimes people do come to accept beliefs that make them uncomfortable, but the guilt of reverting is even greater than the uncomfortableness.

>>7300352
*certainty and consistency

If Stirner had survived his insect bite the various ideological criticisms of the 20th century would have been foreshortened.

>>7299215
Op is fagmatist

>>7299845

that's not what nihilism is