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Pill Pod 98 - Ricky Rorty: Derrida vs. Habermas

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I Think He's Defending Those Figures Rorty but He Also Seems to Be Defending What Habermas Is Doing

Rorty is defending those figures rorty but i think he's also pointing out where habermas kind of has a point or he's agreeing with some others that public theorizing can be useful to society. He does seem to want to leave space for things that can make life better for people and I personally found it sometimes a little bit vague but also appealing the way that he just wanted to talk about cruelty and humiliation as things that we are trying to have less of. The word private however is emphasizing the wrong aspect of this if this makes sense because i have called it before a sense and my sense is mine in that so it is private in a sense of a sense but also

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