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American pragmatism has always had at its heart a focus on questions of communities and ethics. This book explores the interrelated work of three thinkers influenced by the pragmatist tradition: Josiah Royce, Wilfrid Sellars, and Richard Rorty. These thinkers’ work spanned the range of twentieth-century philosophy, both historically and conceptually, but all had common concerns about how morality functions and what we can hope for in our interactions with others. Steven Miller argues that Royce, Sellars, and Rorty form a traditional line of inheritance, with the thought of each developing upon the best insights of the ones prior. Furthermore, he shows how three divergent views about the function, possibilities, and limits of moral community coalesce into a key narrative about how best we can work with and for other people, as we strive to come to think of widely different others as somehow being morally considerable as "one of us." ** Review "‘We’―a word both inclusive and exclusive― is the very basis of the notion of community. It is a word that means that one never has to go it solely alone. But it’s also a warning to outsiders: you don’t belong with ‘us.’ Miller leads us careful

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Author

Steven A. Miller

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780367666811

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Anthropology, Humanities