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Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Reference -- Prologue -- The Practice of Philosophizing -- Lachs on Transcendence: Art's Relation to the Life of Reason /Michael Hodges -- Thinking in the World: Expanding the Practical Uses of Philosophy /Kelly A. Parker -- Practical Posthumanism in the Philosophy of John Lachs /Phillip McReynolds -- John Lachs's Relativism in Philosophical Education as Seen from a Practical Perspective /Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński -- John Lachs, Meaningful Effort, and the Broken World /Charles Padrón -- Philosophical Relationships -- Lachs, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness /Andrew Fiala -- Lachs vs. Santayana /Richard Marc Rubin -- The Unadulterated Joy and the Pressure of Obligations in John Lachs's Philosophy /Nóra Horváth -- Stoic Pragmatism -- How Stoic is Lachs's Pentapharmakos? /Daniel Pinkas -- Toward an Ontology for Stoic Pragmatism /Griffin Trotter -- Self-Respect, Positive Power, and Stoic Pragmatism: Rawls, Dewey, and Lachs on Justice and Happiness /Eric Thomas Weber -- 'Raisins in the Bread of Life': On the Practical Joys of Lachs's Stoic Pragmatism /Shannon Sullivan -- Anthropology, Social Ethics, and Bioethics -- The Unlived Life: The Main Nemesis of the Examined Life /Vincent Colapietro -- Are Acts of Institutions Really Fully Analyzable into the Constituent Actions of Human Beings? /Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley -- Mediation and Its Discontents /Michael Brodrick -- Facing Death: Preparing for Dying as a Social Process /Patrick Shade -- John Lachs on Happiness and Individuality /Matthew Caleb Flamm -- Addendum -- Immediacy and the Future /Phil Oliver -- Death and Self-Importance /John Lachs.

Preliminary Material -- VALUES AND POWERS IN A PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT -- A PRELUDE TO AMERICAN PRAGMATISM. TRANSCENDENTALISM AS "THE POWER OF THOUGHT AND OF WILL" -- CHARLES S. PEIRCE'S PRAGMATICISM AND THE REVALUATION OF THINKING ON VALUES AND POWERS -- THE AXIOLOGY OF PRAGMATIC METAPHYSICS. THE POWERS OF MEN IN WILLIAM JAMES -- LOYALTY TO A WORTHY CAUSE AND PROVINCIALISM AS "SAVING POWER" IN JOSIAH ROYCE -- JOHN DEWEY AND THE MIGHT OF DEMOCRATIC VALUES -- DEMOCRACY AND EXCLUSION IN PRAGMATIC AESTHETICS (DEWEY, SHUSTERMAN, MARGOLIS) -- EVALUATIVE CHARACTER OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS IN GEORGE HERBERT MEAD -- RICHARD RORTY'S LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND THE LIMITS OF CULTURAL IMPERIALISM -- POWERS AND PERFECTIONS IN GEORGE SANTAYANA'S ABULENSEAN PRAGMATISM -- FINAL REMARKS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- INDEX -- VALUE INQUIRY BOOK SERIES.

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