Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was fraternal love.
Richard Rorty"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.
Richard RortyYou read the pragmatists and all you know is: not Descartes, not Kant, not Plato. It's like aspirin. You can't use aspirin to give yourself power, you take it to get rid of headaches. In that way, pragmatism is a philosophical therapy. It helps you stop asking the unhelpful questions.
Richard Rorty