Pragmatism, Homo Faber, Democracy

Transcending mere Academic quibbling, Pragmatism expresses the profound and epochal re-conceiving of Homo Sapiens as Homo Faber.  That transition entails not a diminishing of the role of Knowing in Human experience, but a re-casting of it as a mode of Doing.  For example, what hitherto is conceived as passive Seeing is, in Pragmatism, presented as active Looking-at.  In further contradistinction from traditional Empiricism, especially from its Phenomenonalist variety, Knowing is a fundamentally social, not private, process, because Belief is always subject to revision by others.  As his criticism of Dewey as "cooking the books" indicates, Whitehead does not quite appreciate that Cognition is as active a process outside of the laboratory as it is within it.  This concept of Human experience as essentially active and social shows why Pragmatism is perhaps uniquely consonant with Democracy.