Dear David B.,
It struck me that your college Philosophy professor's self-mockery
('Socrates: "To be is to do.", Sartre: "To do is to be.", Sinatra: "Do be do
be do."' quoted from your 18/5 14:14 -0600 posting) is the perfect counter
to Pirsig's condemnation of metaphysics as degenerate and of writing about
someone else's philosophy as parasitic ... while he and we can't help doing
just that anyhow.
Creative philosophizing (the opposite of philophologizing) implies
commenting on and competing with existing philosophies. It also implies
exploring the limits of the existing metaphysics and reaching for a new one
where those limits seem too restricting. But above all creative
philosophizing will lapse into philosophologizing and
metaphysics-as-'thought-without-evidence' if we fail to intersperse it
liberally with 'doing' and 'being', with applying/expressing philosophy
to/in life and with feeding philosophy on life or expressing our everyday
values in our philosophy.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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