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On Justice and Character: Liberalism and Self-Realization in Rorty and Mill
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hearted view of the universe, just as this fact or that principle would," James, Pragmatism, pp. 487-9.
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Cavell, Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, pp. 112, 124.
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James, Pragmatism, pp. 502-3.
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"Creative Democracy—The Task Before Us," The Later Works, Vol. 14, p. 226.
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Anderson, "Pragmatism and Character," p. 296; Shusterman, Practicing Philosophy, p. 6. See
also Nehamas, The Art of Living.
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"John Searle on Realism and Relativism," in TP, p. 83.
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“Redemption from Egotism: James and Proust as Spiritual Exercises,” Telos v. 3 no. 3 (2001),
pp. 248-252.
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Fish, "Truth and Toilets" in The Trouble with Principle, p. 295; "Almost Pragmatism," p. 63.
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Giles Gunn, Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New
Pragmatism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 7. Cf. also Bernstein: "The recent resurgence [of pragmatism] is a confirmation of what I have long believed – that the pragmatic legacy has a richness, diversity, vitality, and power to help clarify and to provide a philosophic orientation in dealing with the tangled theoretical and practical problems that we are presently confronting," "The Resurgence of Pragmatism," Social Research vol. 59, no. 4 (Winter 1992), p. 833. See also his The New Constellation.
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See Rorty, "Truth without Correspondence to Reality" in PSH; Fish, "Truth and Toilets," p.
301.
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I have argued that the unstated moral of this essay, which on the surface is a critique of the way
various philosophies – in particular, "Platonism"— have sought to unite the quest for political justice and esoteric individual pursuits in a single, "self-justifying, self-sufficient synoptic vision" that morally redeems the latter, is actually a defense of Jamesian individual temperament (“Pragmatism and Personal Vision,” unpublished dissertation chapter). Oddly, Rorty appeals to the – ostensibly private – idiosyncratic personal history of his publicly-held views in order to advance the argument that the personal and the idiosyncratic have no connection to the public and political. Rorty’s turn to autobiography can be seen as his having the reach the point Cavell describes as when “reasons” simply “run out” and “something must be shown.” See Cavell, Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, pp. 112, 124.
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Fish, "Truth but No Consequences," pp. 410-11. Like Fish, Rorty holds that "there is no
reason why a fascist could not be a pragmatist" (PSH 23).
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John Dewey, The Early Works: 1882-1898, ed. Jo Ann Boydston. (Carbondale, Il.: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1967-72), Vol. 3, pp. 6-7.
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Dewey, "Maeterlinck's Philosophy of Life," in The Middle Works, Vol. 6, p. 135.
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"Truth but No Consequences," p. 411. Emphasis added.
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hearted view of the universe, just as this fact or that principle would," James, Pragmatism, pp.
487-9.
64
Cavell, Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, pp. 112, 124.
65
James, Pragmatism, pp. 502-3.
66
"Creative Democracy—The Task Before Us," The Later Works, Vol. 14, p. 226.
67
Anderson, "Pragmatism and Character," p. 296; Shusterman, Practicing Philosophy, p. 6. See
also Nehamas, The Art of Living.
68
"John Searle on Realism and Relativism," in TP, p. 83.
69
“Redemption from Egotism: James and Proust as Spiritual Exercises,” Telos v. 3 no. 3 (2001),
pp. 248-252.
70
Fish, "Truth and Toilets" in The Trouble with Principle, p. 295; "Almost Pragmatism," p. 63.
71
Giles Gunn, Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New
Pragmatism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p. 7. Cf. also Bernstein: "The recent
resurgence [of pragmatism] is a confirmation of what I have long believed – that the pragmatic
legacy has a richness, diversity, vitality, and power to help clarify and to provide a philosophic
orientation in dealing with the tangled theoretical and practical problems that we are presently
confronting," "The Resurgence of Pragmatism," Social Research vol. 59, no. 4 (Winter 1992), p.
833. See also his The New Constellation.
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See Rorty, "Truth without Correspondence to Reality" in PSH; Fish, "Truth and Toilets," p.
301.
73
I have argued that the unstated moral of this essay, which on the surface is a critique of the way
various philosophies – in particular, "Platonism"— have sought to unite the quest for political
justice and esoteric individual pursuits in a single, "self-justifying, self-sufficient synoptic vision"
that morally redeems the latter, is actually a defense of Jamesian individual temperament
(“Pragmatism and Personal Vision,” unpublished dissertation chapter). Oddly, Rorty appeals to
the – ostensibly private – idiosyncratic personal history of his publicly-held views in order to
advance the argument that the personal and the idiosyncratic have no connection to the public and
political. Rorty’s turn to autobiography can be seen as his having the reach the point Cavell
describes as when “reasons” simply “run out” and “something must be shown.” See Cavell,
Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome, pp. 112, 124.
74
Fish, "Truth but No Consequences," pp. 410-11. Like Fish, Rorty holds that "there is no
reason why a fascist could not be a pragmatist" (PSH 23).
75
John Dewey, The Early Works: 1882-1898, ed. Jo Ann Boydston. (Carbondale, Il.: Southern
Illinois University Press, 1967-72), Vol. 3, pp. 6-7.
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Dewey, "Maeterlinck's Philosophy of Life," in The Middle Works, Vol. 6, p. 135.
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"Truth but No Consequences," p. 411. Emphasis added.
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