Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part One)

Subscribe to get parts 1 and 2 of this now, ad-free, plus tons of bonus content. On "Universality and Truth" and "Pan-Relationalism," which are lectures 3-5 in Richard Rorty's Pragmatism As Anti-Authoritarianism. How do we justify democracy? Rorty says we don't have to refer to transcendent Truth or Good to do this. He also denies the disinction between essential and accidental properties, and in fact between substance and property: Everything is just described in terms of its relations to other things, and which relations are important are not intrinsic to the thing, but a matter of a speaker's purposes. If you like our podcast, try the Saga Thing podcast. The post Ep. 350: Rorty on Justification and Essentialism (Part One) first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.