From: Erin Noonan (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 00:53:31 BST
i thought 'religion as a conversation stopper' meant
that he didn't want to discuss the topic of religion.
So he wants to discuss it but not call it a
religious discussion? I'm a little confused.
I will go back and reread those emails.
erin
>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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