Epistemological Ambivalence: Richard Rorty on Religion and Public Discourse
The late Richard Rorty famously argued that faith-based positions grounded in comprehensive worldviews or unassailable texts served as ‘conversation-stoppers’ and should be excluded from the public sphere. This article argues that Rorty’s position flies in the face of his own postmodern epistemology...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Brill
2017
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International journal of public theology
Έτος: 2017, Τόμος: 11, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 88-109 |
| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | AB Φιλοσοφία της θρησκείας, Κριτική της θρησκείας, Αθεϊσμός VB Λογική, Φιλοσοφική Ερμηνευτική, Φιλοσοφικό δόγμα της γνώσης |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Epistemology
public square
postmodernism
Deweyian progressivism
Wittgenstein
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Σύνοψη: | The late Richard Rorty famously argued that faith-based positions grounded in comprehensive worldviews or unassailable texts served as ‘conversation-stoppers’ and should be excluded from the public sphere. This article argues that Rorty’s position flies in the face of his own postmodern epistemology as well as his insistence on the humility and virtues that should attend the collective pursuit of the social good. It suggests that there are two Rortys at work and that his epistemological ambivalence undermines the force of his argument. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7320 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | In: International journal of public theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697320-12341473 |