Rorty, Liberal Democracy, and Religious Certainty
This book asks whether there any limits to the sorts of religious considerations that can be raised in public debates, and if there are, by whom they are to be identified. Its starting point is the work of Richard Rorty, whose pragmatic pluralism leads hi
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Neil Gascoigne
Rorty, Liberal Democracy, and Religious Certainty
Neil Gascoigne
Rorty, Liberal Democracy, and Religious Certainty
Neil Gascoigne Department of Philosophy Royal Holloway, University of London Egham, UK
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To apprehend what is is the task of philosophy, because what is is reason. G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Right But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. Herman Melville, Moby Dick …the logical reason of man operates in this field of divinity exactly as it has always operated in love, or in patriotism, or in politics, or in any other of the wider affairs of life, in which our passions or our mystical intuitions fix our beliefs beforehand. It finds arguments for our conviction, for indeed it has to find them. It amplifies and defines our faith, and dignifies it and lends it words and plausibility. It hardly ever engenders it; it cannot now secure it. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
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Preface
This book started out as a somewhat technocratic attempt to offer some epistemological support for the view that the expression of religious convictions ought not be regarded as “reasonable moves” in debates about public goods. From the outset I recognised that any such contribution would have to appeal to those among us who have such commitments; but I was a little slower appreciating that
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