«On Rorty: Justice as Motivation to a Broader Loyalty»

Abstract

I propose in this paper to make a critique of one part of Richard Rorty’sethic-political argumentation, specifically about how to treat moral conflict problems in which the loyalty to different collectives is troubled. I’ll try to hold this critique providing a context for Rorty’s arguments (specially of his work El pragmatismo. Una versión), which are exposed in the first part of the paper, in a traditional criticism framework. I’ll try as well to show that Rorty’s approach depends on this philosophy; although he pretends to destroy «pure» rational arguments in favour of another ones more pragmatic, they owe their efficiency to the first ones, which remain behind them.