理查德·罗蒂

Quotes

• “On James's view, "true" resembles "good" or "rational" in being a normative notion, a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit with other sentences which are doing so.”
• “My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have … "an ambition of transcendence."”
• “Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.”
• “Truthfulness under oath is, by now, a matter of our civic religion, our relation to our fellow citizens rather than our relation to a nonhuman power.”
• “… our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on anything else. In religious terms, this is the Feuerbachian thesis that God is just a projection of the best, and sometimes the worst, of humanity. In philosophical terms, it is the thesis that anything that talk of objectivity can do to make our practices intelligible can be done equally well by talk of intersubjectivity.”
• “Nowadays, to say that we are clever animals is not to say something philosophical and pessimistic but something political and hopeful – namely, if we can work together, we can make ourselves into whatever we are clever and courageous enough to imagine ourselves becoming. This is to set aside Kant’s question “What is man?” and to substitute the question “What sort of world can we prepare for our great grandchildren?””

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Key facts

Born

Richard McKay Rorty , ( 1931-10-04 ) October 4, 1931, New York City, U.S.

Died

June 8, 2007 (2007-06-08) (aged 75), Palo Alto, California , U.S.

Education

University of Chicago ( BA , MA ) Yale University ( PhD )

Doctoral advisor

Paul Weiss

Other advisors

Rudolf Carnap , Richard McKeon , Charles Hartshorne

Era

20th-century philosophy

Region

Western philosophy

School

Analytic philosophy (early) Postanalytic philosophy (late) Neopragmatism (late) Postmodernism (late)

Institutions

Wellesley College Princeton University University of Virginia Stanford University

Doctoral students

Robert Brandom , Michael Williams

Main interests

Epistemology Philosophy of language Philosophy of mind Ethics Metaphilosophy Liberalism Postmodernism

Notable ideas

Postphilosophy Ironism Final vocabulary Epistemological behaviorism Antirepresentationalism Anti-foundationalism Reformist left (as opposed to cultural left ) Edifying philosophy (as opposed to systematic philosophy ) Sentimentality as the foundation of human rights

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