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Prompt: Richard Rorty was a philosophy professor at Princeton and Stanford Universities and one of the most influential American thinkers of the 20th century. He said the following in Rorty and his Critics, regarding his philosophy of education:
It seems to me that the regulative idea that we heirs of the Enlightenment, we Socratists, most frequently use to criticize the conduct of various conversational partners is that of ‘needing education in order to outgrow their primitive fear, hatreds, and superstitions’…It is a concept which I, like most Americans who teach humanities or social science in colleges and universities, invoke when we try to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic, religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own…The fundamentalist parents of our fundamentalist students think that the entire ‘American liberal establishment’ is engaged in a conspiracy. The parents have a point. Their point is that we liberal teachers no more feel in a symmetrical communication situation when we talk with bigots than do kindergarten teachers talking with their students…When we American college teachers encounter religious fundamentalists, we do not consider the possibility of reformulating our own practices of justification so as to give more weight to the authority of the Christian scriptures. Instead, we do our best to convince these students of the benefits of secularization. We assign first-person accounts of growing up homosexual to our homophobic students for the same reasons that German schoolteachers in the postwar period assigned The Diary of Anne Frank…I think those students are lucky to find themselves under the benevolent Herrschaft [domination] of people like me, and to have escaped the grip of their frightening, vicious, dangerous parents.
Explain in your own words how Rorty’s attitude toward education can be understood as deeply erotic according to the theory of eros we are offered in the speech of Socrates/Diotima in Plato’s Symposium. Do you believe this theory is correct in describing such attitudes as erotic, as passionately loving? If so, explicitly anticipate and respond to at least one substantial objection. If not, why not?
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