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A tribute to Richard Rorty, one of America\u2019s greatest philosophers. He died June 8th, at the age of 75. Rorty was one of the brilliant minds who broke free of Analytic Philosophy, along with MacIntyre, Quine, and others. He boldly restated the pragmatist philosophy, \u201cshut up about Truth already, and just get something done!\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t studied a great deal of pragmatism \u2013 it still hasn\u2019t caught on in mainstream philosophical academia. But my boss at the Ethics Center<\/a> is a pragmatist, and along with my conversations with him, reading about Rorty gives me great respect for the philosophy.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s one quote found twice <\/span>in a recent tribute to Rorty<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cMy sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How beautiful it is to see, spoken so simply and clearly, this universal message of hope, holiness, and love \u2013 and from a dyed-in-the-wool atheist, nonetheless.<\/p>\n
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