Rorty on the End of Inquiry

UPDATE: The full interview from which this clip was taken is available @ http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6148968394915050958
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Richard Rorty speaking about the end, or endlessness, of inquiry and the possibility of a better life for our great great grandchildren. Taken from "Of Beauty and Consolation" (Part 23) by Wim Kayzer, Dutch TV (VPRO) 2000.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• philosophy
• rorty
• Greek
• inquiry
• pragmatism
• reality
• god
• justification
• belief
• pieinthesky
• Plato
• progress
• immortality

[punkfloyd87]

youtube arguments are the end of inquiry

[manwaring]

Congratulations on your lengthy ad-hominem.

[S2Cents]

@Onieracraft It means more opportunities to decide what better means and means what we already mean now by it.

[Onieracraft]

make life better for our descendants?

What does "better" mean?

[quietearthtube]

These are the days days of miracles and wonders, living the fruition of millenial dreaming. The Negev blooms, humans fly, we visit the moon, water flows with the turn of a knob. Not a break from yearning for paradise, but the delivery of such. I need only willingness to perceive Gan Edan. Incredible when considered in perspective of how things have been for thousands of years, and it's come so rapidly.

[jimbopumbapigsticks]

Why do people bother leaving supposedly serious comments on these videos? Hardly anyone's going to read them, and your views are probably amateurish anyway.

[MyoyuMusic]

@physistica maybe all THREE of you have a much better grip on Plato than Rorty did!

[frogbuster20]

@johnuio - well said.

[johnuio]

@frogbuster20 --> I think you are generally right about Rorty's unjustified rendering of Platonism. Rorty of course is also right, but only if Plato is sophist-icated, which many analysts seem to do without apology. Just because Plato REFERS to the sun, the good, the just, etc., it's really the SOPHISTS who think they have an analytical (ad hoc) formulation to grasp these things & they are the amusing fools. The Plato we see in the dialogues does not offer a grasping relationship to the ideal.

[fede2]

interesting. but i think bourgeoise retreat into a comfortable existence with availability of material goods is the opposite evasive extreme with respect to patonic longing for the "things in themselves" in some other dimension.