Showing posts with label Rorty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rorty. Show all posts

Sunday, May 23, 2021

none of it

“Further, I want to supply some ground for a suggestion which I shall develop later:  that the problem of personhood is not a ‘problem’ but a description of the human condition, that it is not a matter for philosophical ‘solution’ but a misleading way of expostulating on the irrelevance of traditional philosophy to the rest of the culture.”  Richard Rorty in Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.
 

Thursday, December 2, 2010

paramount

"Rorty repeatedly insists that what should be paramount in our use of language is neither the realist goal of discovering the truth nor even the Habermasian goal of cooperative problem solving to promote consensus of belief, but rather the goal of private perfection through original creation"
Richard Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics