"Government, business, art, religion, all social institutions have... a purpose[:]... to set free the capacities of human individuals... [T]he test of their value is the extent to which they educate every individual into the full stature of his possibility."
- #Dewey, Reconstruction in #Philosophy (1920) [as quoted by #Rorty (1998)].

Wonder what kind of values would be returned were such tests applied to our social institutions, beginning with academia.

#pragmatism #experimentalism
@philosophy

"Your devotion to #democracy is unlikely to be wholehearted if you believe, as monotheists typically do, that we can have #knowledge of an "objective" ranking of human needs that can overrule the result of democratic consensus."
- Richard #Rorty (1998).

Generally, I find Rorty to be a troublesome thinker, often unconcerned with revising his interpretations (as nevertheless befits his global #philosophy). This, however, is a powerful statement in favor of secularism.

@philosophy #pragmatism

Über das Glück des Denkens, das mich persönlich ereilt hat. Zu meiner eigenen Überraschung und gegen meine zwischenzeitlichen Annahmen.

Ein Video darüber, dass Theoretisieren einige von uns recht glücklich machen kann, und auch darüber, unter welchen Bedingungen Theorie keinen allgemeinen, gesellschaftlichen Schaden anrichtet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRgh0hPbsOg

#Philosophie #Philosophieren #Rorty #Feyerabend #Demokratie #Gleichwertigkeit #ThirdPersonView #Solon

This 3-way interview from '02, featuring #Rorty, #Putnam + #Conant is very interesting.

Most interesting about it, to my mind, is that it's Putnam who comes across as most down-to-earth, most authentically, experientially connected with real-world concerns. In other words, who comes across as most genuinely #pragmatist. Even when referencing #Kant or #Plato, he is less abstract in tone and content than either Conant or, especially, Rorty. Symptomatic.

@philosophy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxL0fQcrjzQ

The new issue of "Philosophy & Social Criticism" (Vol. 48, No. 10) features articles on pragmatism (Dewey & Rorty), including:

* "Pragmatist democracy and the populist challenge" - Felix Petersen (open access)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537221114917

* "Does the European left have to choose between the nation-state and internationalism?" - Martin Seeliger & Johannes Kiess (open access)

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01914537221117097

#Philosophy @philosophy #pragmatism #Dewey #Rorty #Criticaltheory #Democracy

Richard Rorty multipragmatiste

#Rorty a fait de la conversation un genre philosophique à part entière, qui l’a poussé à refuser toutes les distinctions stériles à ses yeux : entre l’analytique et le continental, entre les #Lumières et la #postmodernité, entre la philosophie et la littérature.

#Philo #philosophie

par Stéphane Madelrieux

👉 https://laviedesidees.fr/Richard-Rorty-multipragmatiste.html

Theorie als Unterfunktion der Ethik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34UwvolNpe0

#Antike #Philosophie #Institutionenethik #Theorienpragmatismus #Rorty