Community and Loyalty in American Philosophy: Royce, Sellars, and Rorty Contributor(s): Miller, Steven A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138570230 ISBN-13: 9781138570238 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Movements - Pragmatism |
Dewey: 191 |
LCCN: 2018004854 |
Series: Routledge Studies in American Philosophy |
Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.76 lbs) 122 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
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Publisher Description: American pragmatism has always had at its heart a focus on questions of communities and ethics. This book explores the interrelated work of three thinkers influenced by the pragmatist tradition: Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty. These thinkers' work spanned the range of twentieth-century philosophy, both historically and conceptually, but all had common concerns about how morality functions and what we can hope for in our interactions with others. Steven Miller argues that Royce, Sellars, and Rorty form a traditional line of inheritance, with the thought of each developing upon the best insights of the ones prior. Furthermore, he shows how three divergent views about the function, possibilities, and limits of moral community coalesce into a key narrative about how best we can work with and for other people, as we strive to come to think of widely different others as somehow being morally considerable as "one of us." |