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Comparative Philosophy: In Response to Rorty and MacIntyre

Comparative Philosophy: In Response to Rorty and MacIntyre Rui Zhu Philosophy Department, Lake Forest College [email protected] Comparative philosophy, as a self-conscious form of intercultural studies, may imply either a general comparative gaze that happens to be directed at philosophy or a branch of philosophy, or doing philosophy, characterized by its comparative method- ology or subject matter or both. Even though comparing philosophies and philoso- phizing through comparisons are inevitably entangled, the difference between the two is sufficiently strong so as to justify their separation here, not least for the sake of making what I believe an important theoretical point. Comparing philosophies of possibly incommensurable traditions, as both Mac- Intyre and Rorty have argued from their distinctive vantage points, can be, albeit tricky or difficult, fruitfully done. According to Rorty, as long as we drop such context- independent, universalist, essentialist conceptions of “truth” and “rationality,” and proceed within the context of globalization, or, in his own words, “the fusion of horizons,” “which inevitably occurs when two rather different individuals or com- munities meet and create a new context by formulating a cooperative Project,” sig- nificant agreements may be reached between peoples, without their having to worry about which of their traditions is right or wrong, true or false. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Philosophy East and West University of Hawai'I Press

Comparative Philosophy: In Response to Rorty and MacIntyre

Zhu, Rui
Philosophy East and West , Volume 68 (1) – Dec 28, 2017
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Rui Zhu Philosophy Department, Lake Forest College [email protected] Comparative philosophy, as a self-conscious form of intercultural studies, may imply either a general comparative gaze that happens to be directed at philosophy or a branch of philosophy, or doing philosophy, characterized by its comparative method- ology or subject matter or both. Even though comparing philosophies and philoso- phizing through comparisons are inevitably entangled, the difference between the two is sufficiently strong so as to justify their separation here, not least for the sake of making what I believe an important theoretical point. Comparing philosophies of possibly incommensurable traditions, as both Mac- Intyre and Rorty have argued from their distinctive vantage points, can be, albeit tricky or difficult, fruitfully done. According to Rorty, as long as we drop such context- independent, universalist, essentialist conceptions of “truth” and “rationality,” and proceed within the context of globalization, or, in his own words, “the fusion of horizons,” “which inevitably occurs when two rather different individuals or com- munities meet and create a new context by formulating a cooperative Project,” sig- nificant agreements may be reached between peoples, without their having to worry about which of their traditions is right or wrong, true or false.

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Philosophy East and West – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Dec 28, 2017

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