My sense of the holy . . . is bound up with the hope that someday, any millenium now, my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

About Richard Rorty

Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher, historian of ideas, and public intellectual. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the...