Dear all,
I sorry about the tone of my earlier postings - really I think they're a bit
rude, abrupt etc. Still if you have replies to this I might just become
more socialised and sociable. I've only recently come accross Prisig after
many years Philosophy study, and I've perhaps the irrascible zeal of a
convert. Actually I think Prisig made a very good job of bring together, in
a way which one wouldn't otherwise have thought of, the thought of the
American Pragmatist John Dewey with that of Plato, Heraclitus, and Buddhism
(although I know he doesn't mention Dewey). It's all in the conception of
the meaning and scope of 'technology'.
It seems to me that in his talk of satisfaction Dewey is the nearest to what
Prisig was saying about the metaphysical reality of 'quality', and that
perhaps Dewey has just seeped into Prisig through some common folklore, or
perhaps the American system of education, or just through their both being
fundamentally right. Overcoming the rationalist/romantic divide was Dewey's
central concern as it is Prisig's. Likewise the attitude to technical
knowledge as a moral activity. Likewise the compatibility of a body of
knowledge with the actual process of teaching it. I could go on.
Anybody thought on similar lines? Anyone read, say, Dewey: 'The Reflex Arc
Concept in Behaviour?' (I feel at liberty to ask this, now that someone has
mentioned Hegel at me)
The best to all,
David
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