From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 01 2002 - 20:57:17 BST
Erin,
Who said anything about eliminating religion?
Rorty follows James' suggestion that we think of religion, science, and art
as all on the same par. This is from his "The Will to Believe." Rorty
follows James and Dewey in trying his hardest to blur the Kantian
distinctions between religion, science, and art. He follows them in saying
that we shouldn't view these three areas as seperate value spheres or as
having different claims to knowledge, but, rather, that we should view them
as having sociological differences, that each area is trying to do
different things.
Rorty would certainly not want to eliminate religion. His efforts are in
the vein of keeping religion, for the sake of religious freedom, in the
private realm and not in the public. In fact, Rorty wishes we drop the
distinction between religious argument and nonreligious argument
completely. There simply commonly held premises that we can us in the
public forum as a basis for solidarity and policy, and there are not.
Matt
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