From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 17:21:12 GMT
Hi Matt:
From the following quote from Pirsig in Lila's Child I must admit to being
mistaken in challenging your assertion that the MoQ is a throwback to
the 18th century and asking for evidence:.
"I have read that the MOQ is the same as Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus,
Hegel, James, Pierce, Nieztsche, Bergson, and many others even
though these people are not held to be saying the same as each other.
This kind of comparison is what I have meant by the term,
"philosophology." It is done by people who are not seeking to
understand what is written but only to classify it so that they don't have
to see it as anything new."
While I appreciate your explication of Kant's influence and encourage
you to follow your muse in annotating ZMM, perhaps you'll agree that
further discussion along the line of "How new is the MoQ?" to be less
fruitful than time spent on subjects more directly related to the content
of the MoQ itself.
I plead guilty to throwing down red meat in claiming the MoQ breaks
new philosophical ground. I'll try to refrain from that particular challenge
in the future. Of course, it's still open season on Rorty. :-)
Platt
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