Tag: egocentric ontology
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“Peacemakers” sidebar: Eliot’s egoic ontology
A short post to accompany the Primitive Peacemakers series, with some quotes from Middlemarch that otherwise wouldn’t make it in. Eliot repeatedly returns to the observation that individuals’ sense of the world—from morality to category to truth—is by default egocentric. This, in my read, is a logical extension of pragmatism from the level of cultural…
Suspended Reason 