[MD] subject/object: pragmatism

[Platt Holden]

Hi DM, Bo, All

[DM]
> > Also enlightenment protestantism is of
> > course very important in the revival of free thinking and also gives us
> > capitalism and economic individualism which helps democracy and tradition
> > bashing just a touch too. 

[Bo] 
> You don't connect it with anything MOQish -  
> SOM or Intellect - but still most apt. BTW, I don't know much 
> about Dewey, but I remember Scott Roberts'  Owen Barfield who 
> has a similar notion of some profound shift taking place around 
> this time that he called "loss of participation". I.e. a previous 
> Golden (participation) Age being ousted by Science and 
> Modernity. This is uncannily like ZAMM's SOM displacing Aretê. 
> Don't you think?  ... with the intellectual level's emerging from the 
> social IMO.

Please note the relationship between individualism and the rise of the  
intellectual level. After the Reformation a person could appeal directly to 
a caring God, thus freeing him from dependence on a social pattern (the 
church) to provide for his welfare.

Platt