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Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part Two)

Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 00:52:17
Publish Date: 2024-09-23 00:13:46
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Concluding on "Universality and Truth" from Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism. It it coherent to simply not have a theory of truth? Rorty claims that he's not a relativist; he's just avoiding some useless parts of philosophy that just cause problems, including inculcating the respect for a non-human absolute, and this attitude undermines democracy.

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