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An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion QUOTES

An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion QUOTES

1 " Human beings need to be made happier, but they do not need to be redeemed, for they are not degraded beings, not immaterial souls imprisoned in material bodies, not innocent souls corrupted by original sin. "

― Richard Rorty , An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion

2 " it is through sentiment and sympathy, not through rationality and universalistic moral discourse, that democratic advances take place. This is why he considers books like Uncle Tom’s Cabin to have played a more important role than philosophical treatises in securing moral progress.”12 "

― Richard Rorty , An Ethics for Today: Finding Common Ground Between Philosophy and Religion