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Entry: The Pragmatism of Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_pragmatism_of_russell_kirk#3602 Post contents: To be sure, RK was a man of letters, rather than a philosopher in the academic sense of the term. But surely he loved wisdom as few do, and his views seem to me to have a massive (rather than a foolish) consistency. There is a strong conviction of the authority of the permanent things, in a word (or two) natural law, and the method of moral imagination, Burke's method, is that described by Newman and Peirce. I know little like it in French or German thought. By the way, I was not praising "civil rights" legislation, or legislation by judicial fiat, but commenting that I find in Kirk no trace of that systematic racial contempt which poisoned our souls to such a great extent . In that he was the precursor of a younger generation. Sent at: 2008 10 07