PHI 3398 Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - Rorty on World

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Rorty on pragmatism, amaerica, and the big divide: rorty on pragmatism. Language is used to describe the outer world. The end of metaphysics according to nietzsche, it is nonsense. No beyond" there is no beyond, just us, flesh and bone. God is dead god is any notion of this beyond". Rorty was a naturalist there is nothing in the world that the human mind cannot conform to. The dasein mind as natural, as common," nothing special. Language as a tool (equipment), as ready-to-hand, zuhanden. Heidegger as a pragmatist: being and time merely anthropological". Heidegger"s view of language is not the same as the pragmatist view of language. What gives something meaning is that i use it in such and such a way (the way they are used in the context of language and other concepts) Describes the way we use language concept of justice, meaning, being, etc. For rorty, there is nothing out of this world / beyond".

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