For the Love of Perfection
Subtitle: Richard Rorty and Liberal Education
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1, 1994
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415910507
First sentence: Moral Perfectionism's contribution to thinking about moral necessity of making oneself intelligible (one's actions,one's sufferings, one's position) is, I think it can be said, its emphasis before all on becoming intelligible to oneself, as if the threat to one's moral coherence comes most insistently from that quarter, from one's sense of obscurity to oneself, as if we are subject to demands we cannot formulate, leaving us unjustified, as if our lives condemn themselves.