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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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Heidegger as one more confused human being

To sum up: I have been urging that we can find in the early Heidegger's pragmatic antiessentialism reasons for abandoning the attempt to see the man and the books in a single vision, and perhaps even the attempt to see the books as stages on a single Denkweg. If we take that antiessentialism more…

—p.196 Philosophy and Social Hope On Heidegger's Nazism (175) by Richard M. Rorty
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we are always alone with our own mortality advice/living inspo/criticism

There is a passage in the work of the contemporary novelist Dorothy Allison which may help explain what I have in mind. Towards the beginning of a remarkable essay called 'Believing in Literature', Allison says that 'literature, and my own dream of writing, has shaped my own system of belief - a ki…

—p.161 Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance (148) by Richard M. Rorty
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on demythologizing

Pragmatist theists, however, do have to get along without personal immortality, providential intervention, the efficacy of sacraments, the Virgin Birth, the Risen Christ, the Covenant with Abraham, the authority of the Koran, and a lot of other things which many theists are loath to do without. Or,…

—p.156 Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance (148) by Richard M. Rorty
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our responsibility to Truth

Our responsibility to Truth is not, for James, a responsibility to get things right. Rather, it is a responsibility to ourselves to make our beliefs cohere with one another, and to our fellow humans to make them cohere with theirs. As in Habermas's account of 'communicative rationality' , our oblig…

—p.149 Religious Faith, Intellectual Responsibility and Romance (148) by Richard M. Rorty