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Monday, February 21, 2022

Sin & Reality "Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism"

"I see the pragmatists’ account of truth, and more generally their anti-representationalist account of belief, as a protest against the idea that human beings must humble themselves before something non-human, whether the Will of God or the Intrinsic Nature of Reality. So I shall begin by developing an analogy which I think was central to John Dewey’s thought: the analogy between ceasing to believe in Sin and ceasing to believe that Reality has an intrinsic nature."

Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism" by Richard Rorty, Eduardo Mendieta, Robert B. Brandom: https://a.co/c63oZsq 1

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