Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 21:33:34 -0800 (PST)
Subject: HAB: Final Vocabularies


"All human beings carry about a set of words which they use to justify
their actions, their beliefs, and their lives. [...] I shall call these
words a person's 'final vocabulary'. [...] Those words are as far as he
can go with language; beyond them there is only helpless passivity or a
resort to force."
- Richard Rorty
(Contingency, Irony and Solidarity, page 73)

Sounds like many of y'all on this list are trying to construct a final
vocabulary for yourselves.

Seems to me that misses the whole point of Habermas's theory which is
better understood as 'a model for pluralist discourse' than as
neo-Marxist metaphysics.

--Tom

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