这本书显示了在美国实用主义哲学中，价值与权利相互关联的程度和方式。本书重新审视了美国实用主义，将促进对这个哲学运动的新认识，通过展示其人文，民主，亲社会的性质。

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: Values and Powers in a Philosophical Context

Part One: Proto-Pragmatic Approach to Values and Powers

A Prelude to American Pragmatism. Transcendentalism as “The Power of Thought and Will”

Charles S. Peirce’s Pragmaticism and the Revaluation of Thinking on Values and Powers

Part Two: Pragmatic Approach to 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

Part Three: Quasi-Pragmatic Approach to Values and Powers

Powers and Perfections in George Santayana’s Abulensean Pragmatism

Final Remarks

Bibliography

About the Author

Index