Hi Matt the E:
First, your effort and patience in attempting to alleviate my confusion
and objections to your Rortyan viewpoint is much more than I deserve.
To say that I’m overwhelmed by your response is to put it mildly. Many
thanks for making such a yeoman attempt to clarify matters.
Perhaps you feel, however, as I do that we’re in danger of straying too
far away from the purpose of this site, namely, to discuss Pirsig’s
metaphysics. I’m sure there are other sites devoted to Rorty where a
discussion like those we’ve had lately would be more appropriate.
So in an attempt to bring our exchanges back within the MOQ orbit,
here is a list intended to highlight your points of agreement and
disagreement with Pirsig’s views as best as I can discern them from
what you’ve written in a number of posts in the past month or so.
Ideas and values you and Pirsig agree on:
Metaphysics a menu, map
Openness to new experiences and ideas
Seeking freshness
Seeking quietude
Striving for excellence
The high value of freedom
Uncovering hidden assumptions
Positions you take that Pirsig doesn’t agree with:
Anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism
DQ and not DQ = Quality
Must resist the Good, True, God, Reason, Science
Nothing interesting about correspondence truth
Ideas you present that Pirsig says nothing about.
Aesthetic axis
Biconditional
Contextualization
Final vocabularies
Historicism
Ironists
Narratives
Nominalists
Oedipal cycle
Poeticization
Solidarity
Vocabulary proliferation
I’m sure you can (and should) add, change, delete items on these lists.
Even with your valiant attempts to clarify the Rortyan view, I’m still
thoroughly confused on many points. So I again must ask for your
forbearance.
Where it appears we can go forward arm and arm without hesitation is
in our passion for freedom and for bringing to light those elusive
assumptions that so many blithely ignore, to their own and society’s
detriment.
Platt
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