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Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan & Richard Rorty on Knowing Without a God's-eye View (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)
Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan & Richard Rorty on Knowing Without a God's-eye View (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)
Date: 22 May 2011, 19:47
Philosophy began as inquiry into the best way to live, but from its advent philosophy has only with difficulty justified its existence. To ask questions about the best manner of living implies that the norms of the culture are potentially inadequate and revisable.
Conventional wisdom—the opinions, laws, myths and narratives of the culture—which the vast majority of people assume to be normative or natural, are relegated to mere custom in the face of the philosopher’s questions. Consequently, philosophy threatens to disrupt the preservation of order within the culture. Potential enemies of order, philosophers are subsequently charged with hubris for examining things on earth and in heaven, for making the weaker argument appear stronger and for displacing the gods of the city with their questions. Philosophy is thought to be useless or dangerous and eventually the philosopher is rejected or killed...

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