Frank Richard Sanane, James Kabata and Simon Njunguna
The Catholic University of Eastern Africa
P.O. Box 62157 – 00200, Nairobi – Kenya
Email: sananerichard@gmail.com
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to show the impact of the metaphysical pragmatism in the contemporary society. The paper makes use of the analysis of Charles Sanders Peirce’s theory. Pierce in his argument presents his theory showing that action gets prior over thought. In this matter pragmatism as the doctrine that truth is a practical efficiency of an idea. This theory has made a great contribution in such a way pragmatism theory is considered as tools to solve problems and the results are considered as they are correct and real until their effects are desirable and useful, otherwise the theory is incorrect. The paper presents theoretical framework based on Peirce’s upon whom the impacts of pragmatism in the contemporary society could have taken roots from. The pragmatism approach in the contemporary society has influenced various sectors and scholars in such a way they concluded to design a system to consider the specialized subjects and also provide the required techniques to the interested individuals in the contemporary time. The paper also covers various impacts which have been shown now in the contemporary times such as training needs assessment process, the subject oriented against the job-oriented educational content and applied scientific education, applied science curriculum design to approach is based on profession and jobs. The identified gap with the critique on the theory of pragmatism is the failure to link between the pragmatism theory and other disciplines such as metaphysics which has led to negative impacts such as moral subjectivity, on the society. Given Perce’s understanding of Pragmatism, The gap may be bridged through linking of both disciples metaphysics and pragmatism and this will help to have a self-defense on pragmatism theory because they are separable but dependence to each other in this case various contemporary issues will be addressed by pragmatism theory.
Key Words: Contemporary society, Metaphysical pragmatism, Sanders Peirce’s theory
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Suggested Citation
Sanane, F.R., Kabata, J. and Njunguna,S. (2020). The Impact of Metaphysical Pragmatism in the Contemporary Society. African Research Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 7(1), 2020. Available online at http://arjess.org/social-sciences-research/the-impact-of-metaphysical-pragmatism-in-the-contemporary-society.pdf
