Pragmatizmde Meliorizm ve Sosyal Umut Kavramı: Richard Rorty’ nin Yeniden Yorumlaması

The concept of meliorism which means future would be better with joint human efforts has drawn attention pragmatist thinkers and philosophers. William James, John Dewey, Ralph Waldo Emerson Richard Rorty are important philosophers placing an emphasis on Meliorism in pragmatism. reinterpreted the way thinking. Rorty’s pragmatism may described as anti-representialist, anti- essentialist, foundationalist, experimentalist, hopeful, forward looking. He proposed a social hope theory building up idea purpose this study is to explore Rorty’ s philosophy meliorism. underlines importance five types emotions access hope. These includes sense imagination, uncertainity, communication, self-awareness self-respect. suggests that having ones might looking combined feeling hope, expecting, regarding something pleasurable future. recommends focusing skip past.