Rortyjev neopragmatizam kao model prevladavanja konflikta/Rorty's Neopragmatism as a Model for Overcoming Conflict

Abstract

The theme of this paper is to present a way of looking at the phenomenon of conflict within a multicultural world through the perspective of Richard Rorty’sneopragmatic philosophy. Modern society and its heterogeneity of different groups of people may require one system under which this heterogeneity would be homogenized; however, this requirement may be imposed only by one group, which can lead to conflict due to disagreement with othergroups. The reason for these conflicts should be sought in their background, and that is the ignorance of one's own finiteness (or teleological understanding of human existence: teleology that is transhistorical, essentialist, etc.). Man is the mirror of his cultures, he creates them. In order to be able to create a society without conflict, it is important to be aware of contingencies, which will enable a communication environment whose ultimate requirement is solidarity, i.e. the humanistic standard of a neopragmatic model.