Hi TOK Society List,

 

  I thought I would share two podcasts that I listened to on my walk today.

 

  First was this session from Philosophize This on Richard Rorty’s ironic, pragmatic approach to human rights. Richard Rorty was an interesting philosopher who was into both pragmatism and a post-structuralist, philosophy of language frame of reference on the nature of reality and truth. The episode gives a nice summary of how Rorty talked about how different people grow into their “final vocabularies” and this serve as the frames they use for the truth. Rorty argued that there was no Truth independent of the language frames that are used to describe it. Reality (or “the world”) exists but it is not true or false. Our claims are what is true or false and so there is no truth decontextualized from that.

 

  I would point out that Rorty is making a “meta” move in his claim that it is the case that people construct reality via their final vocabularies. I would posit, by virtue of JUST and then the ToK System, we can actually assert that Rorty is onto something. There is a better final vocabulary to be had as a function of these insights.

 

  This brings me to this second clip of Jordan Hall (Civium part 7). He offers a brief description of what a “meta-culture” plan would entail, which connects both to my ideas and his ideas of the “civium”. He, John V. and I had a good conversation on Friday, which John will post to Voices on this coming Friday and I will share shortly thereafter. I think it shows the compatibility between Vervaeke’s vision of dialogos and the needed ecology of practices, Hall’s frame for constructing Game B and the civium, and the UTOK and its fifth joint point and the need to weave together the Digital, the Transcendent, and the MetaCultural embodiment of effectively living across the socio-ecological scale.

 

Best,

Gregg