Study On Rorty's New-Pragmatism Philosophy

During the 60's-80's of 20th century, the postmodernism swept over the world, and great influences were engendered in the east and west. Richard Rorty as a representative of the postmodernism, his new pragmatism philosophy has brought greatness influences in the field of philosophy.Because America is an immigrant country, American people have no uniform culture background. At the difficult beginning of building the hometown, the diverse and open culture-background made the American form the spirit of loving actual effects and the pragmatism was the typical philosophy of America. During the classical pragmatism time, Perice, James and Dewey thought that the pragmatism should take the empiricism as the base of philosophy. They paid more attention to the innovation of experience, and thought the human experiences should become the object of philosophy research. At the end of 30's of the 20th century, the introduction of analytic philosophy in America made it become the most important philosophy. After the introduction of analytic philosophy, it had the trend to become pragmatism. Rorty is a philosopher that study from analytic philosophy to pragmatism. His New-pragmatism-philosophy was the important delegate of the renewal of pragmatism. Rorty inherited the spirit of Dewey to rebuild the philosophy; In the new-pragmatism-philosophy, Rorty cleared up the traditional philosophy, in his theory it is a kind of mirror-reflection-philosophy, and the traditional epistemology is attempt to mop the mirror clearly which reflects the world. The traditional philosophy and the analytic philosophy respectively regard 'mind' and 'language' as the mirror to reflect the world. After negating the traditional philosophy, Rorty affirmed and developed the pragmatism. In Rorty's eyes , the pragmatists should take the solidarity as the aim, take more attention to the realistic life; After negating the traditional mirror-reflection-philosophy, Rorty initiated his non-mirror-reflection-philosophy, and developed 'edifying philosophy' .In his 'edifying philosophy' people aim not at the providence of absolute truth but at the subversive irony discourse and epigram. Developing the idea of no-mirror truth, and Rorty thought the truth was the common...