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Our solidarity is strongest with people we see as one of us, a group smaller than humanity
Drawn from what Richard Rorty said
What Richard Rorty actually said
- Richard Rorty Pragmatist philosopher (1931 to 2007) whose Contingency
The point of these examples is that our sense of solidarity is strongest when those with whom solidarity is expressed are thought of as “one of us,” where “us” means something smaller and more local than the human race.
Where this was said
↗Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 1989)archive.org
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