Steve, DMB, Matt, Nothwithstanding real or perceived radical pragmatist differences between DMB and Matt, this quote in the referenced article may explain some of DMB's take on Rorty as nihilist.
QUOTE Rorty harbored—or perhaps oscillated between—strong doses of both pessimism and hope, moments of dystopia and utopia, a sense of impending ruin and a romantic humanism. His was a humanism without foundations, and thus too precarious for some. UNQUOTE The groundlessness can take some getting used to ? Ian On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> wrote: > That is an excellent article Steve. > (Anyone know any more about Danny Postel that we find on the New > Humanist site ?) > > Apart from the content and quotes, I am tickled again by the fact that > that you see consistency with both DMB and Matt, whereas DMB still > insists we have deep "radical pragamatist" differences between himself > and Matt (and those of us that can't see enough difference to worry > about.) > > Ian > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Steven Peterson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Here is an interesting article on Richard Rorty's take on the my >> question about the pragmatists response to religious dogmatism: >> http://newhumanist.simple501.com/1440 >> >> I found it very consistent with Matt's and DMB's take. >> > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
