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an increase in imaginative power

More specifically, we see both intellectual and moral progress not as a matter of getting closer to the True or the Good or the Right, but as an increase in imaginative power. We see imagination as the cutting edge of cultural evolution, the power which - given peace and prosperity - constantly ope…

—p.87 Philosophy and Social Hope Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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would make us uncomfortable with ourselves

[...] To say that God wills us to welcome the stranger within our gates is to say that hospitality is one of the virtues upon which our community most prides itself. To say that respect for human rights demanded our intervention to save the Jews from the Nazis, or the Bosnian Muslims from the Ser…

—p.85 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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vicissitudes

something exempt from the vicissitudes of time and history

—p.82 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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justifactory ability is its own reward

[...] you cannot aim at 'doing what is right', because you will never know whether you have hit the mark. Long after you are dead, better informed and more sophisticated people may judge your action to have been a tragic mistake, just as they may judge your scientific beliefs as intelligible only b…

—p.82 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty
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moral progress as increasing sensitivity

[...] So it is best to think of moral progress as a matter of increasing sensitivity, increasing responsiveness to the needs of a larger and larger variety of people and things. Just as the pragmatists see scientific progress not as the gradual attenuation of a veil of appearance which hides the …

—p.81 Ethics Without Principles (72) by Richard M. Rorty