Richard Rorty＇s moral finitism is based on some ideas from John Stuart Mill＇s work On Liberty. For Rorty, religious truths would be the main obstacles for the development of freedom and, at the same time, for human ...Richard Rorty＇s moral finitism is based on some ideas from John Stuart Mill＇s work On Liberty. For Rorty, religious truths would be the main obstacles for the development of freedom and, at the same time, for human happiness. Rorty introduces the concepts of contingency and literary culture to express the situation of personal moral development, stressing that our life must be seen as an endless narration. So, there is no fixed development given once and for all. Rorty＇s anticlericalism is also based on the idea that the creation of clerical institutions and hierarchies is dangerous in the sense that they pose demands which go beyond individual perspectives and make religious obligations be prior to moral ones. Nevertheless, there are some misconceptions in Rorty＇s position when he discusses the idea of moral obligation and the relationship between religion and religious institutions.展开更多
The article, delivered as a lecture, deciphers a government organized symposium on ＂folk beliefs＂ in which the speaker took part as an invitee. It is organized within a confined ＂ethnography of a conference,＂ but ...The article, delivered as a lecture, deciphers a government organized symposium on ＂folk beliefs＂ in which the speaker took part as an invitee. It is organized within a confined ＂ethnography of a conference,＂ but it engages constant interactions between the speaker＇s own reflections on the concepts of superstition, folk religion, and civil solidarity and recent mainland Chinese political and intellectual discussions concerning the ＂crisis of faith＂ （ or the counter-currents of atheism） , ＂religious revival,＂ ethnic isolation, and the expanding Christianity.展开更多
文摘Richard Rorty＇s moral finitism is based on some ideas from John Stuart Mill＇s work On Liberty. For Rorty, religious truths would be the main obstacles for the development of freedom and, at the same time, for human happiness. Rorty introduces the concepts of contingency and literary culture to express the situation of personal moral development, stressing that our life must be seen as an endless narration. So, there is no fixed development given once and for all. Rorty＇s anticlericalism is also based on the idea that the creation of clerical institutions and hierarchies is dangerous in the sense that they pose demands which go beyond individual perspectives and make religious obligations be prior to moral ones. Nevertheless, there are some misconceptions in Rorty＇s position when he discusses the idea of moral obligation and the relationship between religion and religious institutions.
文摘The article, delivered as a lecture, deciphers a government organized symposium on ＂folk beliefs＂ in which the speaker took part as an invitee. It is organized within a confined ＂ethnography of a conference,＂ but it engages constant interactions between the speaker＇s own reflections on the concepts of superstition, folk religion, and civil solidarity and recent mainland Chinese political and intellectual discussions concerning the ＂crisis of faith＂ （ or the counter-currents of atheism） , ＂religious revival,＂ ethnic isolation, and the expanding Christianity.
