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A Neo-Pragmatist Account of Harmony Between the Private Sphere and Public Purpose: Dialogue Between Richard Rorty and Charles Taylor (90268)
Session Chair: Kien Trung Do
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Saturday, 14 June 2025 11:15
Session: Session 2
Room: Live-Stream Room 4
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
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Following the later Wittgenstein, Rorty asserts that experiences are private, but language is always communal. The self cannot exist as a priori but as a self-formed in interaction with others and context. The self cannot separate itself from its own experience in order to create a viable network of connections to expand the private sphere and incorporate communal purpose. The disagreement in the debates between philosophers around the concepts of "private sphere" and "community interest" often revolves around separating the two spatial dimensions with a clear line. The way Richard Rorty blurs this line by placing the shaping of subjectivity in the inevitable interaction with the external world has received controversy and criticism. However, if combined with Charles Taylor's view that the purpose of the "private sphere" is to strive for private happiness and the purpose of the community is to pursue the common good, not two completely contradictory systems of values and interests. By emphasizing the concept of "Unconditional Commandments", that is, the social and moral conditions in the search for a reasonable expansion of the private sphere and non-confrontation between the individual and the community, we realize that the self is defined not on rational or metaphysical grounds but on moral and spiritual commitments to the nation or tradition to which they belong. Our research will focus on shaping an interpretation to provide an explanation of the continuity between subjectivity and intersubjectivity that cannot be separated, thereby emphasizing the harmony between private interests and common values.
Authors:
Kien Trung Do, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Kien Trung Do is a University Assistant Professor/Lecturer at University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH) in Vietnam
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