Richard Rorty
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Rorty was a philosopher and public intellectual who taught at Princeton, the University of Virginia and Stanford.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 4 Oct 1931, New York City (opens wiqqi.app)
- Died: 8 Jun 2007, at his home, of pancreatic cancer (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: University of Chicago, BA and MA in philosophy, under Richard McKeon; Yale, PhD in philosophy (1952 to 1956), under Paul Weiss (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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5 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Our solidarity is strongest with people we see as one of us, a group smaller than humanity (opens korrents.com)
“The point of these examples is that our sense of solidarity is strongest when those with whom solidarity is expressed are thought of as “one of us,” where “us” means something smaller and more local than the human race.”
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The liberal ironist wants our chances of being kind and avoiding humiliating others expanded by redescription (opens korrents.com)
“The liberal ironist just wants our chances of being kind, of avoiding the humiliation of others, to be expanded by redescription.”
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Redescription and humiliation are no more tied to ironism than to metaphysics (opens korrents.com)
“But notice that redescription and possible humiliation are no more closely connected with ironism than with metaphysics.”
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Our solidarity is strongest with people we see as one of us, a group smaller than humanity (opens korrents.com)