Background
Lachs, John was born on July 17, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. Arrived in United States, 1957. Son of Julius and Magda (Brod) Lachs.
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While Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and George Santayana (1863-1952) may never have met or even have studied one another's work, they experienced similar cultural conditions and their thinking took similar shapes. Yet, until now, their respective bodies of work have been examined separately and in isolation from one another. Santayana is often regarded as an aesthetician and metaphysician, but Wittgenstein's work is usually seen as antithetical to the philosophical approaches favored by Santayana. In this insightful new study, Michael Hodges and John Lachs argue that behind the striking differences in philosophical style and vocabulary there is a surprising agreement in position. The similarities have largely gone unnoticed because of their divergent styles, different metaphilosophies, and separate spheres of influence. Hodges and Lachs show that Santayana's and Wittgenstein's works express their philosophical responses to contingency. Surprisingly, both thinkers turn to the integrity of human practices to establish a viable philosophical understanding of the human condition. Both of these important twentieth-century philosophers formed their mature views at a time when the comfortable certainties of Western civilization were crumbling all around them. What they say is similar at least in part because they wished to resist the spread of ruin by relying on the calm sanity of our linguistic and other practices. According to both, it is not living human knowledge but a mistaken philosophical tradition that demands foundations and thus creates intellectual homelessness and displacement. Both thought that, to get our house in order, we have to rethink our social, religious, philosophical, and moral practices outside the context of the search for certainty. This insight and the projects that flowed from it define their philosophical kinship. Thinking in the Ruins will enhance our understanding of these monumental thinkers' intellectual accomplishments and show how each influenced subsequent American philosophers. The book also serves as a call to philosophers to look beyond traditional classifications to the substance of philosophical thought.
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Lachs, John was born on July 17, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. Arrived in United States, 1957. Son of Julius and Magda (Brod) Lachs.
Bachelor of Arts, McGill University, 1956; Master of Arts, McGill University, 1957; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale, 1961.
He served as President of the Metaphysical Society of America in 1997. His style is highly accessible as Lachs is committed to making philosophical questions and their discussion come within the grasp of all his audiences. Lachs is a pragmatist in the tradition of William James and Josiah Royce.
He was President of the William James Society in 2007.
Lachs is the faculty adviser of Young Americans for Liberty at Vanderbilt University and is a libertarian. His philosophical interests center on human nature.
This takes him into metaphysics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and ethics. Lachs is general editor of the Encyclopedia of American Philosophy.
An issue of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy will be devoted to his essay "Both Better Office and Better: Moral Progress Amid Continuing Carnage," with responses from a half dozen philosophers.
He is also chair of the American Philosophical Association"s Centennial Committee, charged with celebrating the private value and social usefulness of philosophy. Plans are being made for activities throughout the country, ranging from radio programs to book signings and coffee house conversations, designed to show the relevance of philosophy to life.
(Designed to guide the student or scholar through the maze...)
(With The Relevance of Philosophy to Life, eminent America...)
(While Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) and George Santayan...)
(ON SANTAYANA, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosop...)
(Book by Hodges, Michael, Lachs, John)
(First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
(Book by Lachs, John)
(Book by Lachs, John)
His primary focus is on American philosophy (he has written a book and several articles on George Santayana) and German Idealism. He has continuing research interests in American philosophy and in German Idealism, along with research and teaching interests in medical and business ethics.
Past chairman Tennessee Committee for Humanities. Member International Neoplatonic Society, World Sociology Association (alienation research committee), American Academy Political and Social Science, American Philosophical Association, Metaphys. Society American (past president), Royal Institute Philosophy, Society Advancement American Philosophy (past president), Society Health and Human Values, Christian Science Peirce Society (past president), Virginia Philosophical Association, Tennessee Philosophical Association, Southern Society.Philosophy and Psychology, Hasting Center.
Married Shirley Marie Mellow, June 3, 1967. Children: Sheila Marie, James Richard.