In a message dated 1/30/01 10:46:10 AM Central Standard Time,
pholden@cbvnol.net writes:
> I know that you've said you don't want to
> "attack" the sci-method, and I'm not asking you to do that, but what are
> your views regarding "cold objectivity" contributing to our current moral
> decay? Is there any connection in your opinion? Pirsig thinks so, or so
> it seems from the following quote:
>
> (LILA page 351: "It's this intellectual pattern of amoral 'objectivity'
> that
> is to blame for the social deterioration of America...")
>
> Yes, I think there is a connection between scientism and moral
> decline, helped immeasurably by such philosophers of science as
> Popper, Kuhn, and Feyerabend whose irrationalism gave aid and
> comfort to the “postmodern” doctrine of “anything goes.” (For a
> revealing description of their influence read “Against the Idols of the
> Age” by Australian philosopher David Stove.)
>
>
Hi Platt
For the record, here's what I think about "postmodernism." I would agree with
its tenet that there is no such thing as Absolute Truth. But I'm totally
*against* using that tenet to support immorality or "anything goes."
Jon
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