Name: André Oliva Donadia
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 18/04/2017
Advisor:
Name | Role |
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Marcelo Martins Barreira | Advisor * |
Examining board:
Name | Role |
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Aldir Araújo Carvalho Filho | External Alternate * |
José Pedro Luchi | Internal Alternate * |
Marcelo Martins Barreira | Advisor * |
Ricardo Corrêa de Araujo | Internal Examiner * |
Susana de Castro Amaral Vieira | External Examiner * |
Summary: This research aims to examine the central elements of liberalisms political philosophy and a description of what Rorty understands as justification to the defense of liberal institutions. We are going to analyze Rortys antifoundadionalism strategy to defend the contemporary liberal institutions. After that, we will examine Rortys liberal utopia. In this context, Richard Rorty argues that the religious speech is at odds with his liberal ideals. As a result, he argues, in a first moment, that religion must be privatized so that the State remains neutral. After exploring the views that constitute his choices, this dissertation shows, in particular, three of Rortys positions that he argues in his writings. The first argument is that religion should be privatized, the second consists in the defense of marginalization of ecclesiastics institutions and the third is that defending pragmatism is, as a result, to defend a secular liberal utopia. In this work, it will be explained how these arguments are entailed to Rortys commitment to his neo-pragmatism and how they fit inside this logic. We will start with a description, then it will be demonstrated that these arguments are at odds with some of philosophical assumptions that Rorty has made, which create practical problems that might eliminate the social ideal that Rorty designed, which creates practical problems for the social and political ideal that Rorty advocates, and finally we address a review of Rorty's position on the subject and indicate a possible inclusion of religion in public space through the notion of "literary culture."