… our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on anything else. In religious terms, this is the Feuerbachian thesis that God is just a projection of the best, and sometimes the worst, of humanity. In philosophical terms, it is the thesis that anything that talk of objectivity can do to make our practices intelligible can be done equally well by talk of intersubjectivity.


"John Searle on Realism and Relativism." Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).

Richard Rorty Quotes

… our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on anything else. In religious...

… our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on anything else. In religious...

… our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on anything else. In religious...

… our maturation has consisted in the gradual realization that, if we can rely on one another, we need not rely on anything else. In religious...