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This is a longshot, but has anyone read Richard Rorty?

Specifically, "Contingency, Irony, Solidarity"?
Spectacular Voyeur
  06/14/06
no, but many people on this board will tell you they've read...
Comical nowag
  06/14/06
Yes. I barely remember CIS, but his stuff on "settling...
Balding mint sound barrier
  06/14/06
Anyone?
Spectacular Voyeur
  06/14/06
I've read it.
Khaki nubile son of senegal immigrant
  06/14/06
Sweet. How does he defend the absolute necessity of solidar...
Spectacular Voyeur
  06/14/06
That's a very good criticism. I guess my answer would be he ...
Khaki nubile son of senegal immigrant
  06/14/06
Yeah, he is ultimately arguing from the POV of a modern libe...
Spectacular Voyeur
  06/14/06
In college, which was in the dark ages so I doubt I remember...
Curious potus pervert
  06/14/06
Any help?
Spectacular Voyeur
  06/14/06
Yeah what do you need?
Metaphysics is Solved
  11/08/26


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Date: June 14th, 2006 7:15 AM
Author: Spectacular Voyeur

Specifically, "Contingency, Irony, Solidarity"?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5981884)



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Date: June 14th, 2006 7:17 AM
Author: Comical nowag

no, but many people on this board will tell you they've read him.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5981886)



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Date: June 14th, 2006 9:20 AM
Author: Balding mint sound barrier

Yes. I barely remember CIS, but his stuff on "settling" for participatory democracy was kinda interesting. Better to read Dewey, though.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5982016)



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Date: June 14th, 2006 3:43 PM
Author: Spectacular Voyeur

Anyone?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5985270)



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Date: June 14th, 2006 3:45 PM
Author: Khaki nubile son of senegal immigrant

I've read it.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5985298)



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Date: June 14th, 2006 3:55 PM
Author: Spectacular Voyeur

Sweet. How does he defend the absolute necessity of solidarity other than that it improves our understanding of each other? He wants a liberal ironist utopia where we all actively attempt to engage each other in order to better understand/relate to each other and minimize our desires to harm each other (ala Mill's "experiments in living"), but he allows for Nietzsche's anarchist/seperatist through his concept of the "strong poet", who is allowed to isolate himself in order to be his best possible self, as long as he adheres to this idea of avoiding harm. My problem is, that if everyone decided to be this "strog poet", then his vision of a liberal ironist utopia wouldn't be possible since there would be no improvement on understanding through interaction. How does he account for this?

If you can't tell, my assignment is to explain how Rorty "radicalizes Mill and domesticats Nietzsche."

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5985383)



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Date: June 14th, 2006 4:13 PM
Author: Khaki nubile son of senegal immigrant

That's a very good criticism. I guess my answer would be he "domesticates Nietzsche." I think he only extends Nietzsche's ideas to the extent to which people's personal narratives are contained and made tidy by a concept of citizenship, which is not a crazy concept, becuase that's basically how America works.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5985579)



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Date: June 14th, 2006 4:28 PM
Author: Spectacular Voyeur

Yeah, he is ultimately arguing from the POV of a modern liberal society (even though he admits that even this is contingent) so that makes sense. Cool. I won't focus on this, maybe just note it in passing. Thanks. :-D

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5985755)



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Date: June 14th, 2006 3:51 PM
Author: Curious potus pervert

In college, which was in the dark ages so I doubt I remember anything about it.

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5985354)



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Date: June 14th, 2006 4:05 PM
Author: Spectacular Voyeur

Any help?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#5985480)



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Date: November 8th, 2026 1:43 PM
Author: Metaphysics is Solved

Yeah what do you need?

(https://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=434371&forum_id=2#50242805)