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Rethinking Truth: Re-description in Rortian Solidarity

martin, alexander edward
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1529951617144493

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2018, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Philosophy.
In Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (CIS) Richard Rorty claimed that we should abandon the search for objective truth and seek human solidarity. Rorty contended that due to the contingent nature of languages, individuals, and societies we would always be prevented in our efforts to define such truths. Rorty did not claim that truths do not exist, rather he argued that any truth claim is always dependent upon a society’s language game. It is due to the fact that a society can never get outside of its language game that society will always be stifled in its attempts at an epistemological justification for a truth claim. Due to this lack of access, Rorty concluded that a search for objective truth is a futile project and society’s time would be better spent seeking human solidarity. For Rorty, human solidarity is measured by increasing the number of people included in the term we when expressing our justified beliefs. For example, when we say, “we believe X” the more people included in that `we’ the closer we are to human solidarity. I explore these themes through a rereading of Orwell' 1984.
Frank Ryan, Dr. (Committee Chair)
82 p.
Philosophy
Rorty Language games orwell 1984 Truth

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  • martin, A. E. (2018). Rethinking Truth: Re-description in Rortian Solidarity [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1529951617144493

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  • martin, alexander. Rethinking Truth: Re-description in Rortian Solidarity. 2018. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1529951617144493.

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  • martin, alexander. "Rethinking Truth: Re-description in Rortian Solidarity." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1529951617144493

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