Rorty on Uncertainty

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 uncertainty inherent, or not, in the life of every human being. Taken from "Of Beauty and Consolation" (Part 23) by Wim Kayzer, Dutch TV (VPRO) 2000.

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Education

Tags:

• philosophy
• rorty
• uncertainty
• luxury

[123gwf]

Once again, philosophy on the internet brings out the best in everyone.

[BenNCM]

Am I listening to a philosopher or the voice over artist for Agent Smith?

[smarfling]

Philosophy is a disease, a cancer of this planet

[suddenlyitsobvious]

@godspeednietzsche

'I think that Rorty would completely deny that he has penetrated the mysteries of life'

Obviously. As a result the only thing he's communicating is HIS uncertainty and existential depression which should inform us that he has nothing worthwile to offer and is as a result yet another demoralizing force in the collective...



[godspeednietzsche]

@suddenlyitsobvious I think that Rorty would completely deny that he has penetrated the mysteries of life. Instead, he´d say that we should give up on pursuing the mysteries of life and focus on the social problems of life. Do you have to agree? Certainly not. But for him, it was alright to be uncertain, because amidst the depressing stuff is hope as well.

[suddenlyitsobvious]

Wow, he looks completely UNCERTAIN and lost. Depressed and depressing. Now really, does he look like a man who has penetrated the mysteries of life?

[righteousfury1]

@BenNCM hahaha i was just gonna say that when i saw your comment.

[MMDC2001]

Rorty's pragmatism is gibberish.

[wilthiswork]

Well I guess that solves it.

[wilthiswork]

The burden isn't on me to say why modern science wouldn't have emerged w/o the enlightenment. I acknowledge that it's possible, at least. But, the enlightenment *did* lead to modern science, and in a way more interesting than simply having the past lead to the present. So in order to counter, I don't have to say it was logically necessary to have happened that way, all I have to do is show that it was a part of a wider human phenomena, not merely something induced by a few weird philosophers.