The first section of this book argues that Davidson and Wittgenstein "treat alternative vocabularies" like tools instead of "bits of a jigsaw puzzle" to be solved. This book argues that the character of O'Brien in 1984 was not intended to be "a modern counterpart to Thrasymachus" but a person who was "dangerous" and "possible," in a chapter titled "the last intellectual in Europe." It borrows Harold Bloom's conception of the "strong poet" to label people who redescribe reality through metaphors, and contrasts the "common-sensist" and the "metaphysician" with a type of person who believes that "cruelty is the worst thing we do." This book analyzes Pale Fire in its chapter "The Barber of Kasbeam," and argues that humans express morality with "we" statements, that divide people into "we" and "them." It asserts that a "liberal Utopia" would consist of people who express the second title concept privately and the ? third title concept publicly. Arguing that literature, not philosophy, strengthens the third and fina
The first section of this book argues that Davidson and Wittgenstein "treat alternative vocabularies" like tools instead of "bits of a jigsaw puzzle" to be solved. This book argues that the character of O'Brien in 1984 was not intended to be "a modern counterpart to Thrasymachus" but a person who was "dangerous" and "possible," in a chapter titled "the last intellectual in Europe." It borrows Harold Bloom's conception of the "strong poet" to label people who redescribe reality through metaphors, and contrasts the "common-sensist" and the "metaphysician" with a type of person who believes that "cruelty is the worst thing we do." This book analyzes Pale Fire in its chapter "The Barber of Kasbeam," and argues that humans express morality with "we" statements, that divide people into "we" and "them." It asserts that a "liberal Utopia" would consist of people who express the second title concept privately and the ? third title concept publicly. Arguing that literature, not philosophy, strengthens the third and final title concept, for 10 points, name this 1989 book by Richard Rorty.
The first section of this book argues that Davidson and Wittgenstein "treat alternative vocabularies" like tools instead of "bits of a jigsaw puzzle" to be solved.
{Contingency}, {Irony}, and {Solidarity}