Victor Nuovo
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Victor Nuovo: George Santayana faced the unknown
35th in a series“How came a child born in Spain of Spanish parents to be educated in Boston and to write in the English language?” With this question,…
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Victor Nuovo: Jane Addams looked at systems
34th in a seriesThe achievement of Jane Addams can be put in one sentence. She invented Social Ethics, both practically and theoretically. Social Ethics is a theory of…
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Victor Nuovo: Henry Adams a study in Americana
33rd in a seriesHenry Adams (1838-1918) belonged to one of America’s great families. He was the great-grandson of John (1735–1826) and Abagail Adams (1744-1818). John Adams, one of…
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Victor Nuovo: James saw a pluralistic universe
32nd in a seriesWilliam James was an American hero. He displayed boundless energy, which was more willed than natural, and he was driven by an insatiable desire for…
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Victor Nuovo: The pragmatic meaning of truth
31st in a seriesWhat is truth? How would you answer this question? You may find it a greater challenge than at first imagined, for truth is one of…
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Victor Nuovo: William James thought about thinking
30th in a seriesWilliam James (1842–1910) is surely the most celebrated of American philosophers, and, in the light of his achievement, he is justly celebrated. He is the…
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Victor Nuovo: Peirce the Pragmatist
29th in a seriesPragmatism is a philosophical movement that originated in America shortly after the Civil War, and it is commonly supposed to be a uniquely American philosophy.…
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Victor Nuovo: A great legal philosopher
28th in a seriesIn 1859 Charles Darwin published “The Origin of Species” and in 1860 the American Civil War began. These two events had a profound effect on…
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Victor Nuovo: A little-known transcendentalist
27th essay in a seriesI suspect that almost everyone who reads this essay will be unfamiliar with Margaret Fuller (1810–50). Her name does not ring a bell in…
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Victor Nuovo: Thoreau, a true American freethinker
Editor’s note: After a short pause, this series picks up today with the 26th essay.Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) was a poet, a naturalist, and a philosopher endowed with…