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Rorty's New Pragmatism Truth Explore Its Theoretical Practical Significance

Posted on:2010-02-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y D GuoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360275965075Subject:Marxist philosophy
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The problem of the truth is a question that surounded the human beings since the beginning of rational thinking that they can think with ration . For thousands of years people have been thinking about a variety of ways on this issue. Far-reaching influence of pragmatism in the United States, Contemporary American Rorty is a typical representative of the new pragmatism. The question of the truth, he had an in-depth thinking about and formed its own theoretical system. The main purpose of this article is to explore the Truth on Richard Rorty's new pragmatism, the text is divided into three parts.The first part is mainly studied how the theory of the new pragmatism on Richard Rorty is generated. In this part, the writer introduced the origin of the new pragmatism on Rorty's theory. Here the wtiter introduced the relationship between new pragmatism and classical pragmatism, philosophy of the European continent and its analysis of the relationship between philosophy,then described how Rorty after a classical pragmatism, analytical philosopher, became to be a new pragmatism of philosopher. In the second part, the basic points of new pragmatism of Rorty on truth were elaborated. First of all, the definition of the concept of the truth was defined and then the writer compared the traditional philosophy with philosophy of Rorty's new pragmatism on the definition of the concept of truth. Second, the criterion of truth was disscussed, where a tradition of philosophy and pragmatism Rorty new criterion of truth were made for the basic points of view, and the new pragmatism on pragmatism and classical standards of truth were compared, At the same time, Rorty and Marxism on the criterion of truth were compared.By comparing, the Truth of the new pragmatism of Rorty was clarified. Finally, the ways of reaching the truth were disscussed. In the third part, Richard Rorty's new pragmatism on the truth was evaluated and reflected, for its positive and negative aspects as well as today's theoretical and practical were summarized and concluded.
Keywords/Search Tags:Rorty, New pragmatism, Classical pragmatism, Truth
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