Abstract:
Although often regarded as a relativist, Richard Rorty responded by denying it himself. In the process of response and denial, Rorty developed his view of and hope. His recent view of progress and hope for progress has gained further development and expressed two Confucian ideas in a better way. That is to say that moral progress means expanding the domain of those who we regard as “ourselves” and that we don’t have to take a position of moral universalism to make such progress. Meanwhile, Confucius and Rorty may differ first in place of distinctions in moral education and then in function of metaphysics in moral progress. And their arguments can be concluded that Rorty’s Confucianism will be a better Confucianism and that the Confucian Rorty will be a better Rorty.
