This book examines Richard Rorty’s position that religious and metaphysical beliefs should simply be abandoned, and proposes that his position is contradicted by what is a fundamental part of every human life, namely the phenomenon of human recognition of other people.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I: Philosophy
Chapter One: The Attack on Realism
Chapter Two: The Attack on Aristotelianism
Chapter Three: Pragmatism
Part II: Religion
Chapter Four: Pragmatist Religious Belief
Chapter Five: Pragmatism and the Theologians
Part III: Ethics
Chapter Six: Pragmatist Social Ethics
Chapter Seven: The Question of Recognition
Conclusion