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. 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.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2017
توصيف ظاهري
88-109
عنوان
International Journal of Public Theology
شماره جلد
11/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1569-7320
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
Deweyian progressivism
اصطلاح موضوعی
epistemology
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
Jewish Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Philosophy, Theology & Science
اصطلاح موضوعی
postmodernism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Practical Theology
اصطلاح موضوعی
public square
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
Sociology of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
Theology and World Christianity
اصطلاح موضوعی
Wittgenstein
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