Entrevista Richard Rorty 2

[gabrielmalard]

annoying musical intrusions, indeed.

[archdeaconj]

This bloody music!

[ANTIMATERIALISTA]

The " I " and the consciouness are the first and absolutely points of start

[ANTIMATERIALISTA]

Rorty is a bad philosophous

[1lawgrad]

rorty is brilliant. the music? not so much.

[dancewomyn]

I enjoy listening to Rorty, but not the intermittent annoying musical intrusions.

[bahramf]

I like Rorty, but pragmatism was not originally Rorty's idea, and far from an american idea. Problably started with Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and finally Dewey in America.

[aaronhemeon]

If you read Corel West's book "Genealogy of Pragmatism," you will notice he begins with a reading of Emerson. You can locate bits of pragmatism in Blake, but Emerson did a lot to advance notions of the movement. Saying Pragmatism is "far from an American idea" is a bit misleading.

[Fichte9233]

I would mark the beginning of pragmatism with Charles Sanders Peirce, or even William James.

[aaronhemeon]

How about instead of all the glitz and American flags etc., you just post the whole raw interview and let the rest of us decide if Rortian pragmatism is as patriotic as you make it out to be here.

[entropia34332]

that´s a good point...

all this usa-asskissing looks a little naive (foxnews-like)and has nothing to do with the interview whatsoever.

...there are more intelligent ways to make allusions (suppose there was the case to) ,you are a philosophy teacher after all,wtf...