"Rorty concludes by holding out the hope that pragmatism, like romanticism, might yet serve as a means for holding out hope—hope that we might someday come to realize that we and we alone are responsible for dreaming up new and more humane ways to live:
If pragmatism is of any importance—if there is any difference between pragmatism and Platonism that might eventually make a difference to practice—it is not because it got something right that Platonism got wrong. It is because accepting a pragmatist outlook would change the cultural ambience for the better. It would complete the process of secularization by letting us think of the desire for non-linguistic access to the real as as hopeless as that for redemption through a beatific vision. Taking this extra step toward acknowledging our finitude would give a new resonance to Blake’s dictum that “All deities reside in the human breast.”
Philosophy as Poetry (Page-Barbour Lectures)" by Richard Rorty, intro by Michael Bérubé https://a.co/iKgeGSf
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