Ask a Liberal where their morals are derived from and you will soon be riled by
their circumlocutions. If you argue that rather than being guided by some ahistorical imprimatur warrant.
Richard Rorty disposes of this objection in a strong essay on ‘Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality’, originally an Oxford Amnesty Lecture in 1993. He admits that he does not believe in Human Rights, but he still looks forward to a future in which everyone will treat everyone else with sympathy and respect, and hate themselves if they ever act cruelly or selfishly.
He wants to bring a ‘human rights culture’ into existence, but not by defending a set of rights supposed to have existed within us since the beginning of time.
For Rorty, rights are a matter of sentimental imagination rather than rational calculation. it is the range of our sympathies that needs developing, not our skill in solving deontological equations. . The last thing they need is a treatise on moral theory.
Morlality might be seen as a secularised makeover of the Western Monotheistic Tradition.
Richard Rorty (philosopher par excellence) believed in progress, but in a naturalistic and Darwinian form rather than a Platonic and absolutist one. Darwin, he says, enabled us to see progress an a secularised makeover of the Western Monotheistic Tradition.
Rorty believes in progress, but in a naturalistic and Darwinian form rather than a Platonic and absolutist one. Darwin, he says, enabled us to see progress as issuing from random self-transformations rather than some inner force driving towards preformed perfection.
their circumlocutions. If you argue that rather than being guided by some ahistorical imprimatur warrant.
Richard Rorty disposes of this objection in a strong essay on ‘Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality’, originally an Oxford Amnesty Lecture in 1993. He admits that he does not believe in Human Rights, but he still looks forward to a future in which everyone will treat everyone else with sympathy and respect, and hate themselves if they ever act cruelly or selfishly.
He wants to bring a ‘human rights culture’ into existence, but not by defending a set of rights supposed to have existed within us since the beginning of time.
For Rorty, rights are a matter of sentimental imagination rather than rational calculation. it is the range of our sympathies that needs developing, not our skill in solving deontological equations. . The last thing they need is a treatise on moral theory.
Morlality might be seen as a secularised makeover of the Western Monotheistic Tradition.
Richard Rorty (philosopher par excellence) believed in progress, but in a naturalistic and Darwinian form rather than a Platonic and absolutist one. Darwin, he says, enabled us to see progress an a secularised makeover of the Western Monotheistic Tradition.
Rorty believes in progress, but in a naturalistic and Darwinian form rather than a Platonic and absolutist one. Darwin, he says, enabled us to see progress as issuing from random self-transformations rather than some inner force driving towards preformed perfection.
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