[MD] David Hildebrand's Dewey

[Ian Glendinning]

Steve, DMB, Matt,

Nothwithstanding real or perceived radical pragmatist differences
between DMB and Matt, this quote in the referenced article may explain
some of DMB's take on Rorty as nihilist.

QUOTE
Rorty harbored—or perhaps oscillated between—strong doses of both
pessimism and hope, moments of dystopia and utopia, a sense of
impending ruin and a romantic humanism. His was a humanism without
foundations, and thus too precarious for some.
UNQUOTE

The groundlessness can take some getting used to ?
Ian

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Ian Glendinning
<ian.glendinning at gmail.com> wrote:
> That is an excellent article Steve.
> (Anyone know any more about Danny Postel that we find on the New
> Humanist site ?)
>
> Apart from the content and quotes, I am tickled again by the fact that
> that you see consistency with both DMB and Matt, whereas DMB still
> insists we have deep "radical pragamatist" differences between himself
> and Matt (and those of us that can't see enough difference to worry
> about.)
>
> Ian
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Steven Peterson
> <peterson.steve at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Here is an interesting article on Richard Rorty's take on the my
>> question about the pragmatists response to religious dogmatism:
>> http://newhumanist.simple501.com/1440
>>
>> I found it very consistent with Matt's and DMB's take.
>>
>