On Rorty's Concept Of Truth As Reflected In His New Pragmatism

Rorty combined pragmatism of philosophy, philosophical hermeneutics some of the methods in and the United States together, on the basis of Marxism, essentialism was strongly criticized, developed a post-modern look with new pragmatic theory. Criticism of both traditional philosophy, or the elucidation of the new pragmatism, truth is always a basic concept of philosophy of Rorty's thinking. Through the analysis of Rorty's concept of truth, not only to see his new pragmatic empiricism, idealism, instrumentalist real, but also his Truth's main points.On the definition of truth, Rorty thought that "truth praise the word, not the nature of the word", and true is really only with the subjective attitude of that statement is true with the use of the nice and good words are the same, but the truth and knowing don't have any relationship with the recognized object. Statement is true and false statements with the attitudes and changes the meaning of development and change, and there is no fixed eternal absolute truth. In determining the standard or test is really the issue, Rorty advocated by action, results, and discussion as standard to judge our cultural values. Whether the definition is true, or true and false test standards, Rorty's view is a continuation of the traditional point of view of pragmatism, and the errors tend of relativism and subjectivism was very clear. But Rorty's let the truth and value of mutual penetration and unified theory of the subjective intentions and try not without any reasonable factor. Depth study of Rorty's Truth and absorb its essence and discard its dross, to serve our country's socialist cultural construction much better, and it is necessary and very meaningful...