Document Type : Research Paper
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Tabriz University
Abstract
The present article tries to show that Rorty's philosophy has some moral message. To do so, we have to look at the contents of some of his books and in particular After Philosophy and The Mirror of Nature. The above-mentioned moral message may be, implicitly or explicitly, seen in his neo-pragmatist ideas and thoughts in the form of concepts and terms such as "solidarity", "democracy", and "cultural politics". In many places, of course, Rorty expresses this message in literary language and in particular through novelists. The present study, of course, is not intended to prove that, like Kant, Rorty has some philosophy of morality; since he is one of the stubborn critics of Kantian morality. Rorty's neo-pragmatist and critical approach to Kantian morality is influenced by pragmatism of Dewey, James and Levinas' philosophy.
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