ABSTRACT
Although the present discussion starts out with an exposition of Donald Davidson's argument for the sociality of thought, its aims are somewhat different from Davidson's in that they are ethical in nature. Davidson's argument establishes that if we did not communicate with others, our lives would not be the lives of rational or thinking creatures. In establishing this, Davidson establishes the bare minimum conditions for rationality, providing a minimalist - Spartan - theory of rationality. I will argue that there are further conditions for rationality, not supplied by Davidson's minimal setup, necessary for the instantiation of Davidson's minimal conditions. The sort of conditions I have in mind are those that foster expression of difference - that is, conditions that foster an understanding that coming to terms with the world, including coming to terms with those who share the world with us, is ideally a matter of creating the conditions for others to strive to come to terms with the world in ways that are not under our control. The space within which rational creatures can thrive, one could say, must be radically non-hegemonic.
