The Contextualized Trends Of Rorty’s View Of Truth

Since ancient times, the truth has existed in the form of the definite goal people have been pursuing, and people are always in the pursuit of the truth. During the development of the truth, the Correspondence Theory of Truth and Practical Truth have more effects on the formation of Rorty’s View of Truth. Rorty believes that traditional epistemology is unreasonable, which begins with and emphasizes the departure of subject and object, as well as the corresponding of appearance and nature. In that way, truth pursuit causes huge disasters to the public, which is attributed to the one-sided pursuit of reason and objective knowledge. It’s far from people’s daily life, and suppressing the development of humanity. Rorty points out that analytic philosophy is a new variant of the philosophy of Kant, and its essence is to emphasize the correspondence of language and the world instead of the traditional correspondence of mind and the world, by polishing the mirror of the language to reflect the picture of the world correctly by consistent logical analysis. But it can not solve the daily problems. According to the Rorty’s book the mirror of philosophy and nature, Rorty turns to the pragmatist camp from the analytic philosophy camp, pointing out where the problems lie by analytic philosophy language, so he becomes a rebel rather than a supporter.During the process of criticizing correspondence theory, Rorty introduced the pragmatism, which injected fresh blood into the development of Western philosophy. He combined rigrous scientific approach and strict logical analysis of analytic philosophy with European Continental Philosophy, which stresses human development, and he treats philosophic problems in a dynamic and historic way, putting all human activities in a certain context, time and space and history, so that everything is temporary and accidental, all of things related to language. He proposed multi-analysis of language on the basis of the context, also intergrated morphological, semantic and pragmatic perspectives. The Truth is a functional dialogue in the language use and a general belief of the human society. Its core is the consistence of dynamic exchange in reality, stressing the contextualized trend of the truth.Rorty is a controversial modern philosopher, some people admiring him, while others denigrating. Some scholars pointed out that Rorty’s Theory of Truth revealed what was ignored by the scientific philosophy; while some scholars regarded Rorty’s Pragmatic Truth as relative, who thought Rorty’s dynamic, temporary and occasional analysis to solve the problem was equivalent to nothing. This view does not make any sense. As a rebel of traditional philosophy, Rorty suspected the traditional philosophy, truth and language on the basis of anti-foundationalism, anti-esentialism and anti-representationalism. We should have a deep thought in his Theory of Truth, metaphor concept, language established on the basis of naturalistic view, his way to choose words freely as well as his thought based on the context. His theory of the Truth is related to the post-modernism, representing the future direction of philosophic development, embodies the trend of philosophy development, which is worthy of our deep research.