A lecture of social and normative practices from neo-pragmatism

Abstract

One of the proposals that has made a mark in recent years by what has been called the “neo-pragmatic” 
philosophy, led by Richard Rorty and Robert Brandom, has been a reading of normative practices in a 
pragmatic sense. In this text, thr porposal is in a certain sense relativist and not universalist, since it 
understands that universalizing a group as heterogeneous as society is an impossible task and what 
would be necessary is, analytically, to divide it into groups of communities and understand their practices. 
We believe that this proposal gives a new way of thinking about normative social practices, inaugurated 
by Wittgenstein, although it moves away from its original purpose, it demarcates a new paradigm for 
theorizing about old aspects, as in this case social practices. Now we propose this way of theorizing to 
understand social customs