Cashio, Anthony and Eric Weber. “Ep 5 – John Lachs on Stoic Pragmatism,” Radio Show & Podcast Philosophy Bakes Bread. January 19, 2017. URL= https://www.philosophersinamerica.com/2017/02/09/009-ep5-john-lachs-on-stoic-pragmatism/. Flamm, Matthew. 2013. "John Lachs, Stoic Pragmatism." European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, V-1. URL= https://journals.openedition.org/ejpap/675 Giezen, Max, 2023. From Theory to Practice: Exploring Stoic Pragmatism for a Life of Resillience … [Read more...]

TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S. PEIRCE SOCIETY: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL IN AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY, Summer 2023, vol. 59, no.3 Eric Ritter - John Lachs's Philosophical Pluralism Herman Saatkamp - John Lachs, Mediation, Love of Life, and Santayana Krzysztof (Chris) Piotr Skowroński - Stoic Pragmatism, its Target Audiences, and the Humanization of Digital Communication Eric Thomas Weber - Freedom in Education for Diversity of Flourishing John Stuhr - Pluralism, Individualism, Mediation, and … [Read more...]

The term mediation, that is, “action on behalf of the other” (Lachs 1981,11), refers to “a nearly universal feature of human action” (Lachs 2019, vii) and defines the indirect ways in which we realize activities through our planning them, and then executing them in order to attain (or failing to) the aims along with their consequences and possible side effects. This indirectness is caused, frequently, due to the fact that we get into mediating relations “in which individuals perform actions on … [Read more...]