My Spring 2009 Moral and Spiritual Dimensions of Education course Final paper submission (limited to 10 pages). I attempt to synthesis Appiah with Caputo, Vollman and Bauman. I’m thinking about cleaning this up, relating it the implications of the non-reductionist philosophy of Dooyeweerd derived from … Read More →
Tag Archives: Rorty
The Postmodern Switch
The radical Reductionist attempts of the Enlightenment, however, did have a positive affect. It encouraged a larger cultural switch in allegiance. In light of the horrors of Modernity, we began to re-evaluate Knowledge. The Postmodern era may mark a change in Worldview. We are not … Read More →
The Modern Epistemic Debate
Philosophy seeks to grasp, to make sense of, the reality we all experience. We recognize that there is great unity in reality but that there is all great diversity. How is it that unity and diversity coexist? To try to answer these questions, Philosophers develop … Read More →
Eagleton on Rorty
In an interesting article on Commonweal, Terry Eagleton has a wonderful summation of Richard Rorty’s view of Western Civilization: Rorty’s kind of argument allows you to acknowledge that Western civilization is indeed a “culture” in the sense of being local and contingent-even as you claim … Read More →
Idolizing Democracy
The philosopher Richard Rorty believes “the word ‘Postmodernism’ has been rendered virtually meaningless by being used to mean some many different things.” (262) But at a minimum, he understands it to signify “a perceived loss of unity.” Rorty’s use of the world “perception” is important. … Read More →
Rorty on Education
Richard Rorty’s Philosophy and Social Hope articulates his philosophical framework, his personal story and philosophical quest, and finally his vision of an educational system worthy of American Democracy. In the Introduction, Relativism: Finding and Making, Rorty seeks to call the reader out from the history … Read More →
“The Good” in Neo-Pragmatist Thought: Freedom as a Moral Imperative
What does it mean to live “the good life”? This is the quintessential philosophic question. Pragmatism, as a distinctly American philosophy, seeks to provide a distinctly American answer. The late Richard Rorty played a major role in revitalized Pragmatism following the ‘linguistic turn’, becoming perhaps … Read More →