...frankly adopts the principle of a philosophy that agrees with our needs and aspirations. Pragmatism " is, in reality, only the application of Humanism to the theory of knowledge." (Schiller, Humanism, p. xxi.) Our endeavor to learn the truth " is necessarily inspired by the conception...

..."Humanism", and "Studies in Humanism" are the titles of his principal works. Pragmatism, Schiller thinks, "is in reality only the application of Humanism to the theory of knowledge" (Humanism, p. xxi), and Humanism is the doctrine that there is no absolute truth, but only truths,...

...the sciences, is the fundamental and permanent attitude of thought of James and himself. Pragmatism 'is in reality only the application of Humanism to the theory of knowledge'.3 The general need is to re-humanize the universe. Re-humanization of the universe, humanism...

...in addition the personal character of thinking (Abel, 1955, p. 11). He thought that Pragmatism was "in reality only the application of humanism to the theory of Knowledge." Schiller lived most of his life in England, but from 1916 to the end of his life he spent part of each...

...now possess. Mr. Schiller prefers the term "Humanism" to "Pragmatism" on the ground that the latter "is in reality only the application of Humanism to the theory of knowledge." However valid Pragmatism may be as a method of logic, "we must yet concede that the man is greater...

...antirepresentationalists. I think FCS Schiller was on the right track when he said that "Pragmatism . . . is in reality only the application of Humanism to the theory of knowledge."3 1 take Schiller's point to be that the humanists' claim that human beings have responsibilities...