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Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007): pragmatist, ironist, and panrelationalist.

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On the eve of Richard McKay Rorty's 94th birthday*, announcing @rortyquotes: dedicated to tweeting a fresh #Rorty banger each and every day of the year—starting tomorrow! * And the day, 79 years ago, that Rorty went off to the University of Chicago's Hutchins College.
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I do not much care whether democratic politics are an expression of something deep, or whether they express nothing better than some hopes which popped from nowhere into the brains of a few remarkable people and which, for unknown reasons, became popular. PasAA p.67 #Politics
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I see the development of the social conventions in which Habermas and I both rejoice as a lucky accident. PasAA p.67 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Politics
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Unlike Habermas, I do not think that disciplines like philosophy, linguistics, and developmental psychology can do much for democratic politics. PasAA p.67 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Politics
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Pragmatists like me can’t figure out how to tell whether we are understanding a justification as just a “justification for us” or as a “justification, period.” PasAA p.65 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Truth
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Putnam, Apel, and Habermas all take over from Peirce an idea which I reject: the idea of convergence upon the One Truth. PasAA p.54 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Truth
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We pragmatists use “truth” to remind ourselves that people in different circumstances—people facing future audiences—may not be able to justify the belief which we have triumphantly justified to all the audiences we have encountered. PasAA p.52 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Truth
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We pragmatists, who think that beliefs are habits of action rather than attempts to correspond to reality, see the cautionary use of the word “true” as flagging a special sort of danger. PasAA p.52 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Truth
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It is no more necessary to have a philosophical theory about the nature of truth, or the meaning of the word “true,” than it is to have one about the nature of danger, or the meaning of the word “danger.” PasAA p.52 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Truth
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The moral to be drawn, I think, is that the idea of communal self-creation—of realizing a dream which has no justification in unconditional claims to universal validity—is neutral between Hitler and Jefferson. PasAA p.50 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Antifoundationalism
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We shall never know for sure whether a given belief is true, but we can be sure that nobody is able to summon up any residual objections to it, that everybody agrees that it ought to be held. PasAA p.48 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Truth
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For those who are willing to use the term “religious faith” to cover both a religion of obedient submission to non-human power and a religion of love between human beings, James’ and Dewey’s project of reconciliation may have some attractions. PasAA p.46 #Rorty #Religion
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For Dewey and James, there was no goal called Truth to be aimed at; the only goal was the ever-receding goal of still greater human happiness. PasAA p.46 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Truth
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Dewey and James wanted to substitute the contrast between a less useful set of beliefs and a more useful set for the contrast between ignorance and knowledge. PasAA p.46 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Truth
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Every evil, Dewey thought, is a name for a lesser good—a good considered and rejected in the process of deliberation. PasAA p.46 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Religion
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For Dewey, in contrast to Kierkegaard, there is no such thing as sin, no such thing as radical evil. PasAA p.46 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Religion
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If a humanistic version of Christianity seems strange, that may be because it leaves no room for the doctrine which was closest to Kierkegaard’s heart: the doctrine of sin. PasAA p.46 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Religion
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For Dewey, Kierkegaard’s Wholly Other is demonic rather than divine, and the worship of the Wholly Other is idolatry, a betrayal of everything which Christ stood for. PasAA p.46 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Religion
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The good thing about the Christian doctrine that love is the only law, Dewey is saying, is not that it has been proclaimed from above, but that it works—works according to utilitarian criteria. PasAA p.45 #Religion #Rorty #Love
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Insofar as Christians see their duty of obedience to God as including more than the duty to serve their fellow human beings, they are worshipping a god of power rather than a god of love. PasAA p.45 #Pragmatism #Rorty #Religion
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If one does see the claim that love is the only law as central to Christianity, then it is plausible to describe the historical development of Christianity in terms of the gradual substitution of love for power as the essential attribute of God. PasAA p.44 #Rorty #Religion
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