Rorty's Anti-essentialism Thought Searches Analyzes

In the history of Western philosophy, essentialism has a long history. Thales of Miletus School from the "origin of everything in the water" began to explore the universe on the commitment to the source of origin, primordial, the pursuit of all things, all the reasons behind the ultimate and absolute truth. What is the nature of the world? What constitutes the world? These problems forced the ancient Greek philosophers from all kinds of concrete things, among individuals looking for a common, ordinary, common things, this stuff is hidden behind the concrete things in nature, is the reason things become things, is real fact. Essentialism to Parmenides as a turning point not just stop at the essence of nature, and the attention to the unity of the universe, the nature of the most common, followed by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle described the nature of different levels of ideas. Aristotle's ontology is usually called essentialism, he is also an essential first systematic analysis of the philosophical concept, the system demonstrated the philosopher, is seen as the source of classical essentialism. To the modern time, Western philosophers have turned to epistemology from ontology, dedicated to exploring people's own cognitive ability, pursuit of knowledge certainty is based, reliable foundation for natural science, which is on the primordial, essential, absolute body on the consistent pursuit. Hegel and modern Kripke, Putnam and others have developed the essentialism on certain degrees. However, anti-essentialism of contemporary philosophy has become a more general tendency. Non-pragmatist Heidegger and Wittgenstein on the nature from different perspectives on the doctrine was rejected.The anti-essentialism is trying to abandon the distinction between essence and phenomenon. Rorty's pragmatism in this context is the most representative, because it is the phenomenon and the nature of the distinction between internal and external, as the only way people describe the difference to the world. Rorty's anti-essentialism Truth is built on the basis of pragmatism.The first summary of Rorty's pragmatism is: Pragmatism is a kind of anti-essentialism. The core of pragmatism is to refuse to accept the "truth is a concept corresponding to the outside world" that the Correspondence Theory of Truth, and the true faith is really the exact appearance of this view. Rorty not only inherited the classical pragmatism to the truth as satisfied with a term of adjectives, as is our faith in a eulogy, but also new features to give the truth, that he calls himself the truth of the truth to lowercase , while the traditional sense of truth for the capital of the truth. He said the lower case refers to the truth and good conduct and condition of the sentence or the nature of; and capital of truth and good is the object of some terminology. Rorty's new pragmatism in the Truth, the truth is not essential and can not be used to guide everything. It is because in the post-philosophical culture, not the enviable "has reached the capital of the truth, but rather as people who are good at."Rorty's anti-essentialism ideology is to meet the phenomenon, which is a kind of giving-up, observations and knowledge of opposition, not the nature of diverse philosophical culture. In the post-philosophical culture, philosophy and culture is no longer king, it is just a lot of discourse, and art, religion, literature, science, as its existence is no longer guide us towards a target of the lighthouse, while is to make our lives better and more interesting. Rorty sought after is not the core philosophy and culture, there is no worship, no model, and no standard cultural diversity.Rorty has been adapted to the 60's the trend of the rise of Postmodernism: anti-essentialism ideology postmodernism is an important component. Rorty believes that post-modern culture to the progress of human civilization. He thought the anti-essentialism and its philosophy of culture, after building not only meets the basic philosophy of postmodernism claim that the rejection of metaphysics against foundationalism, essentialism, digestion and the existence of dualistic thinking, and negative truth Recognizing the existence of the phenomenon behind that no essence; But also to reveal the contemporary post-modernism on the Western tradition and modern philosophy has contributed to the development and beyond. Therefore, the study after Rorty's thought for sure the trend of modern Western philosophy is very meaningful.This article is structured into four parts. The first part is from essentialism and anti-essentialism on starting; Rorty's pragmatism about the second part of the anti-essentialism based on the Truth;Part three described the idea of its anti-essentialism comes down - after the philosophy of culture; Described in the last part of his philosophy on the development of post-modern philosophy and significance of the impact.