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Who Are We?

Moral Universalism and Economic Triage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Richard Rorty
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In what sort of situation might someone ask the question “who are we?” It seems most appropriate in the mouth of someone trying to shape her audience into a more coherent community. It is the sort of rhetorical question a party leader might ask at a party rally. In such situations, it means something like “what unifying ideal can we find to make us less like a mob and more like an army, less like people thrown together by accident and more like people who have united to accomplish a task?”

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 44 , Issue 173 , January 1996 , pp. 5 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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Notes

1. Richard Posner, “The Most Punitive Nation,” Times Literary Supplement (September 1, 1995), p. 3.