| Unlike Gilbert Harman or Richard Rorty, Fisher is no relativist, and unlike, say, Charles Stevenson, he is no logical positivist. |
| Rorty thinks that churches should teach that the greatest source of suffering is still, as always, economic inequality, not spiritual or bodily impurity. |
| Richard Rorty says twice that St Augustine was involved in the fight against the Arians. |
| To fail to narrativize one's own life, to fail to redescribe oneself, Rorty suggests, is to fail to be fully human. |
| Rorty has known the call of intense and ultimately spiritual yearnings. |
| In taking this position Giddens comes close to American philosopher Richard Rorty. |
