Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth in Richard Rorty

The recent issues of terrorism,insurgents, gay and high moral decay in our societies narrow down to truth. The nature of truth is a question one cannot evade in philosophical inquiry. Indeed, truth and knowledge thereof are the very rails upon which people ought to live their lives. It is on these bases that absolute truth and its postmodern rejection has become a great concern to the twenty first century. Postmodernism, thus, is a recent development in the field of philosophy based on contemporary ideology and chiefly characterized by its rejection of absolute truth. Postmodernism challenges the Western standard as the absolute standard for the assessment of thoughts and cultures. On this position, Richard Rorty, postmodernism most gifted defender challenged the idea that the task of Philosophy is to look for general theory. For Rorty, philosophy should not be about finding general theories of Truth, Good, Knowledge, Beauty etc (like this idea has dominated Philosophy since the time of Plato), rather he was of the view that a general theory of Truth, Good, Knowledge etc is not likely to be found. So, Philosophers should not waste time looking for such. On this argument Rorty advised for replacement of epistemological goal for “Objectivity” with pragmatic goal of “intersubjective agreement” or what he called “solidarity”. By this he means that foundations should be jettisoned and each community should be allowed to determine its own truth.
Therefore, it is against this background that this work is aimed at x-raying Rorty’s opposition to truth as absolute or what we call absolute truth via its appraisal. In conclusion It also enumerated the implications and consequences of Rorty’s stand and its solutions as well