Living with multiple claims to Truth, none 'proveable,' we choose our truths by 'what works,' aspiring to a democracy which supports coexistence of 'contradictory' truths, without resort to killing each other off, or appealing to a 'higher authority.' [av
"My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law." ~Richard Rorty
During the Seventies Rorty became convinced that if God, Mind and the Good are figments of metaphysical dreamwork, the same must apply to the World as It Really Is.
Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister--corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere d
Moral progress isn't beingTrue, Good, or Right...Whether our ideas correspond to some fundamental reality isn't key; it's whether they help us carry out practical tasks to create a fairer, more democratic society.
Book Review by Brian Eno. Philosophy & Social Hope published in 2000. "Truth Without Correspondence to Reality," "A World Without Substances or Essences," and "Ethics Without Principles" are a few of the essay titles.
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989), Achieving our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America (1998), Philosophy and Social Hope (1999), and (with Gianni Vatti
Maybe Rorty mistook his own easygoing temperament—with its lovely bias toward intellectual honesty, toward intellectual modesty, toward intellectual openness—as guarantor of the general base line respect necessary to building meaningful consensus.
If the world is at base a primary flux of matter without form or constant, then things are always a temporary product of a channelling of this flux in what Deleuze and Guattari call ‘assemblages’ or ‘arrangements’...
Aurelius meditated that, “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”