Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński, Values, Valuations, and Axiological Norms in Richard Rorty’s Neopragmatism

The late philosopher Richard Rorty was at root an honest liberal, fearlessly ready to trace the implications of his democratic commitments into deep domains of metaphysical inquiry. He managed an intellectual modesty that was also ruthlessly iconoclastic, situating himself as a great warrior in the...

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Hlavní autor: Schoonover, Steven B.
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Jazyk:Anglais
Vydáno: European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 2017
On-line přístup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Shrnutí:The late philosopher Richard Rorty was at root an honest liberal, fearlessly ready to trace the implications of his democratic commitments into deep domains of metaphysical inquiry. He managed an intellectual modesty that was also ruthlessly iconoclastic, situating himself as a great warrior in the sophistic tradition stretching back to Gorgias and continuing up through Nietzsche and later Wittgenstein. Like all sophistry, Rorty took aim at the notion of Truth itself, challenging the idea th...