Richard Rorty
Pragmatist philosopher (1931 to 2007) whose Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989) argued that truth is made rather than found and that liberal hope rests on solidarity and avoiding cruelty, not on metaphysics.
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Our solidarity is strongest with people we see as one of us, a group smaller than humanity
Their wordsThe 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.
↗Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 1989)archive.org All 2 from this book
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Their wordsThe liberal ironist just wants our chances of being kind, of avoiding the humiliation of others, to be expanded by redescription.
↗Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (Cambridge University Press, 1989)archive.org All 2 from this book