The Linguistic Structure of Reality: A Critical Review of Richard Rorty's Perspective

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10.22081/jti.2023.64939.1028

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The contemporary world is witnessing the increasing tendency of thinkers from different intellectual and cultural fields to a special approach to reality, which interprets it as something related to man and his goals and objectives, not independent of them. Richard Rorty is one of the supporters of this idea. The present article aims to evaluate Rorty's point of view with critical-analytical method while showing how Rorty defends this point of view. According to the present research, it becomes clear that Rorty rejects the possibility of accessing the naked reality by referring to the characteristics he attributes to language, and therefore the reality that is accessible to us is our own creation and a complete linguistic structure. has it. But in my opinion, despite the fact that believing in the linguistic structure of having reality puts us in a better position to defend concepts such as activity, freedom, self-awareness, property, thought, and authentic life, Rorty's emphasis on solidarity instead of objectivity and truth requires It is a kind of domination of the field of culture over the rational sciences and as a result we witness a desire for the originality of the will (either individual or social) according to which philosophy becomes a secondary matter and relies on the will.

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Theosophia Islamica
Volume 2, Issue 2
August 2022
Pages 115-135

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