ya'all
Rich E, glad to see you anted up.
Platt, Rand's " Philosophy, Who needs it" speech should be required reading
before getting a driver's license. Not that "objectivism" is my cup of tea.
Roger, No misunderstanding. But I hope to amplify in my response in DMP's
ninth which follows.
DMB, I, like Platt, appreciate Rand for her speech finally help me understand
why philosophy was important. No, not important, critical to being human. That
being said, I haven't and don't support most of her philosophic positions.
But, as my initial take on the MoQ, "Novel Reality" in the forum, indicates
both she and RMP took a similar, populist approach to spreading their beliefs.
This was good both for them and us.
DMB's Ninth, first stanza.
" In any hierarchy of metaphysical classification the most important division
is the first one" P 107
Rog- The point I was trying to make to Rich E was that IMHO Pirisg could have
just as well made this initial split from one into many instead of two like
the SoM split. Think prism , with the prism not a fixed triangle by but
dynamic one, able to subtly change shape, as events unfold. That's what I was
eluding to when I said I wasn't conforming to Pirsig. If we follow his "chess
opening" metaphor we see this is not allowed. In chess, one is not allowed
multiple opening moves. But never, in life is only just one thing going on. It
always a bunch of simultaneous stuff.
The prisim metaphor leads me to ask: can the static somehow change,shape,
modify, control, feedback to the dynamic?
Starting to burn......pick this up manyana! Besides, I just skimmed nine and
it's actually fifteen pages in my copy. Too long .Too day.
brujo on!
dlt
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