From: poteejc@okstate.edu
Date: Fri Oct 11 2002 - 06:23:50 BST
Thus quoth Matt:
>
>I was guessing Chomsky.
>
>But I would like to say this, now that you've put some of Rorty's political
>side out on the table. One thing that Rorty makes very clear in his
>writing is that we cannot confuse a person's private, philosophical
>projects with their public, political projects.
I have a difficult time accepting the separation that Rorty advocates. Isn't one's public, political projects influenced by one's personal philosophy? To be otherwise seems to me, to borrow the phrase from exisentialism, inauthentic.
james
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