From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 18:48:50 BST
Hi John B:
> The first is the acceptance of any pre-packaged belief system. This can
> include any 'ism', including scientism, and most religion, and undoubtedly
> includes the MOQ. It does not preclude intelligence, or good will, but is
> essentially closed. This would not suit Rorty or Cupitt, who seem to
> believe that the time for such belief systems is past, despite the ample
> evidence that they are everywhere popular. Fundamentalism would seem to me
> to provide the clearest picture of the attractiveness of such systems, and
> their basic flaws.
Just to note in passing that Rorty is promulgating a pre-packaged belief
system which goes under the general "ism" of postmodernism. As
Scott pointed out in another post, we all speak from our particular
dogmata:
Scott
Again, I am trying to change the SOM attitude to dogma. We all have
dogmata -- isn't your "language gets in the way of immediate
experience" a dogma? And isn't it dependent on the SOM attitude
toward language (nominalism, another dogma)?
Rorty is no exception. His final vocabulary is just as incorrigible as
anyone's, as his and his acolytes frequent use of "final vocabulary" and
"incorrigible" testifies.
So all options for the exploration of reality are fundamentally "pre-
packaged belief systems." Every once in awhile (rarely to be sure)
somebody comes up with a new option like the MOQ whose superiority
to other options is that it allows--indeed encourages--individuals to
determine for themselves which belief system has the highest Quality.
Ultimately, each person in his mind and heart decides what's true on
the basis of whether the truth in question is a good truth. Truth (reality)
is essentially an esthetic response.
I don't know of any mystics who would say otherwise. Do you?
Platt
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