Neo-pragmatismo de Richard Rorty X Teoria da ação comunicativa de Jurgen Habermas

Abstract

Nowadays pragmatism emerges as a kind of thought which is configured starting from the great epistemological event of the twentieth century, the linguistic pragmatic turning point of philosophical thinking, establishing in this way the conditions to present the more radical questioning to the tradition of western thought. This article explains the kind of pragmatism which is articulated in the context vision of Rorty, who intend to cure mankind from the platonic disease, with the pretension to catch in the core at thought the intelligible structure of reality. On the other hand, Habermas, situated in the same fundamental theoretical framework of Rorty, nevertheless is intending to keep the objectivity of thought and to propose one form of thinking which could make mankind able to face up with a rational approach the great challenges of our civilization.