Author: Hugh McDonald
Hugh P. McDonald is professor of philosophy at the New York City College of Technology (CUNY). He is the author or editor of numerous journal articles and books, including F. C. S. Schiller on Pragmatism and Humanism: Selected Writings, 1891–1937 (coedited with John Shook, Prometheus Books, 2007) and, most recently, Pragmatism and Environmentalism (editor, Rodopi, 2012).
F. C. S. Schiller’s Idealistic Humanism and Personalism
“Humanism” has different definitions and distinct meanings in different disciplines.
Environmental Philosophy’s Challenge to Humanism
The breakdown of the world’s ecology is causing a shift in environmental sensibilities tantamount to a second Copernican revolution. . . . In the second Copernican revolution we may be forced to abandon the even more self-aggrandizing belief that we are the center of the moral universe and have a special, privileged status in …