RELIGIÓN Y LUCHA POR LA JUSTICIA SOCIAL EN EL PENSAMIENTO POLÍTICO ESTADOUNIDENSE: RICHARD RORTY, JOHN RAWLS, Y MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

John Rawls's "political" conception remains our most influential notion of justice designed to respect the irreducible and irreconcilable diversity of moral, philosophical, and religious doctrines characteristic of a pluralistic democratic culture. While we know from recent posthumous publications of Rawls's deep understanding of religion's ultimate importance, this conception seems to exclude a fundamental dimension of the most important struggles for social justice, like the role of the black church for Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. This article examines the later work of Richard Rorty for its potential in thinking through this tension surrounding religion and social justice and argues that by distinguishing appeals to transcendental authority within democratic discourse from the work of local parishes and spiritual communities, Rorty offers a way of understanding the role of religion in a pluralistic democratic culture capable of advancing the struggle for social justice consistent with the legacy of King and providing resources for Rawlsian liberals.La concepción "política" de la justicia de John Rawls es una de las nociones más influyentes que respeta la diversidad irreducible e irreconciliable de doctrinas morales, filosóficas, y religiosas que caracterizan una cultura democrática pluralista. Si bien sus publicaciones póstumas dan cuenta de su comprensión profunda de la importancia definitiva de la religión, esta concepción aparece excluir una dimensión fundamental de las luchas más importantes por la justicia social, tales como la de Martin Luther King, Jr. y el movimiento para los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos. Este artículo examina, a partir de los últimos trabajos de Richard Rorty, el potencial para aliviar esta tensión entre la religión y la justicia social; a través de la apelación a una autoridad trascendental en el discurso democrático de las parroquias locales y las comunidades espirituales, Rorty nos ofrece una manera de entender el papel de la religión en una cultura democrática capaz de avanzar en la lucha por la justicia social y consistente con el legado de King y el liberalismo de Rawls

Religion and fight for social justice in the american political thought: richard rorty, john rawls, and martin luther king, jr.

John Rawls's "political" conception remains our most influential notion of justice designed to respect the irreducible and irreconcilable diversity of moral, philosophical, and religious doctrines characteristic of a pluralistic democratic culture. While we know from recent posthumous publications of Rawls's deep understanding of religion's ultimate importance, this conception seems to exclude a fundamental dimension of the most important struggles for social justice, like the role of the black church for Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement. This article examines the later work of Richard Rorty for its potential in thinking through this tension surrounding religion and social justice and argues that by distinguishing appeals to transcendental authority within democratic discourse from the work of local parishes and spiritual communities, Rorty offers a way of understanding the role of religion in a pluralistic democratic culture capable of advancing the struggle for social justice consistent with the legacy of King and providing resources for Rawlsian liberals.La concepción "política" de la justicia de John Rawls es una de las nociones más influyentes que respeta la diversidad irreducible e irreconciliable de doctrinas morales, filosóficas, y religiosas que caracterizan una cultura democrática pluralista. Si bien sus publicaciones póstumas dan cuenta de su comprensión profunda de la importancia definitiva de la religión, esta concepción aparece excluir una dimensión fundamental de las luchas más importantes por la justicia social, tales como la de Martin Luther King, Jr. y el movimiento para los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos. Este artículo examina, a partir de los últimos trabajos de Richard Rorty, el potencial para aliviar esta tensión entre la religión y la justicia social; a través de la apelación a una autoridad trascendental en el discurso democrático de las parroquias locales y las comunidades espirituales, Rorty nos ofrece una manera de entender el papel de la religión en una cultura democrática capaz de avanzar en la lucha por la justicia social y consistente con el legado de King y el liberalismo de Rawls

Jane Addams and Richard Rorty: The Philosophy and Practice of Pragmatist Social Ethics

This chapter places the ideas of Jane Addams and Richard Rorty into constructive dialogue revealing common appeals to sentiment, sympathetic knowledge, and meliorism in their ethics. When read together a distinctive contribution to pragmatist social ethics emerges. Specifically, they merge the epistemic and ethical, holding that knowledge of others is predicated on a sympathetic affective orientation, and focus their melioristic practices toward the marginalized. They align in advocating a suite of melioristic practices that remains attentive to the limits and barriers all projects of social ethics face: forging democratic relations with those who have been marginalized or excluded from our community, mitigating egotism and its attendant self-certitude, and advancing mechanisms for deprivileging those at the top of undemocratic relational hierarchies. Taken together, Addams and Rorty help us better orient the practice of social justice to overcome the ethical and epistemic obstacles faced in this quest. For them, social justice is unattainable without both extending ethical ties via sympathy and fostering epistemic resources of shared knowledge and understanding. Putting Addams and Rorty into constructive dialogue also offers crucial remedies for problems of echo chambers and the fragmentation of communities that currently beset democratic communities in our “post-truth” condition

What can we hope for?: essays on politics/ Richard Rorty ; edited by W.P. Malecki and Chris Voparil.

Includes bibliographical references and index."Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was among the most influential intellectuals of the latter half of the twentieth century, a thinker whose pragmatist philosophy ranged effortlessly across literature, politics, history, and poetry. To today's wider public Rorty is best known as the philosopher who forewarned of the 2016 US presidential outcome almost two decades in advance when he presciently predicted that a portion of the electorate would "start looking for a strongman to vote for- someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots." Featuring four previously unpublished essays, the writings collected in this volume convey his other prognostications and warnings for contemporary America and the global order-all of which remain surprisingly relevant. What Can We Hope For? showcases Rorty's striking diagnoses of the rising challenges democracies face, at home and abroad, and his timely proposals for how to address them. Written for popular audiences, these essays speak to urgent debates about our collective future, including: the ever-widening economic gap in our societies; the indifference of the rich global north toward the hardships of the poor global south; the populism fueled by sadistic tendencies to stigmatize others based on race, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation; the lack of international political initiatives for tackling overpopulation and environmental devastation; and the twilight of social utopias. He urges us to put our faith in trade unions and universities, bottom-up social campaigns, and bold political visions that thwart ideological pieties. Admirably clear and always thought-provoking, these essays outline Rorty's strategies-more needful now than ever-for fostering social hope and building an inclusive global community of trust"--1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages