Sentences with phrase «liberal ironists»

Rorty's liberal ironist sees persons and cultures as «incarnated vocabularies» and tries to resolve her doubts about her own character or her own culture by enlarging her acquaintance of other people and cultures.

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Refusing to accept the ethical postulate conjoining self - realization and the social good which was at the heart of Dewey's ethics throughout his career, Rorty has argued for a «liberal utopia» in which there prevails a rigid division between a rich, autonomous private sphere that will enable elite «ironists» like himself to create freely the self they wish — even if that bares a cruel, antidemocratic self — and a lean, egalitiarian, «democratic» public life confined to the task of preventing cruelty (including that of elite ironists).

He has a great deal of fun suggesting that public rhetoric should not be ironist even in «the ideal liberal society.»