From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 17:00:40 GMT
Hye John,
>Do you sleep? I've got no idea what time of day it is where you are but it's
>three in the afternoon here (GMT +10:00).
I sleep a lot more now then I used to. I sent that last message at, say,
6pm. I live in the Midwest of the US, is that's any help.
>Who is or what is this Rorty you keep talking about? Is there a book I
>should be reading?
Richard Rorty is an academic philosopher who's been called "the most
interesting philosopher alive." He's just my little pet project, like Ken
Wilber (who we don't hear as much about these days) is to others. (I tried
sending the "Confessions" post, but it wouldn't come out on the other side.
It might have been too big, but it wasn't bounced. I'll try sending it
one more time.) What I've been arguing for the past 6 months is that
Pirsig's project is flawed and I've been using Rorty to help describe why I
think ZMM is the better book, over Lila. At the moment, rather than finish
my incompletes for school, I'm finishing an essay for the forum that will
hopefully bring together many of the discussions I've had under a single
thread (my apologies to Andy; don't worry I'll get back on the horse ;-).
As for if you should be reading him, I wouldn't think so. If you haven't
read a lot of traditional philosophy, then almost all of his essays will be
about things have read about. There is one book of essays, Philosophy and
Social Hope, that I would recommend as an introduction if you were _really_
that interested. I mean, you'd have to really see something in all my
raves about Rorty for it to be worth it. And if you're going back to a
university, you'd probably be able to find it at a university library. Or,
they usually have an interlibrary loan apparatus, so you could send away
for it. But only if you're really interested.
>I'm going into primary teaching ( 5-12 year olds) what about you.
High school (14-18). I wouldn't be able to guess at how to incorporate the
MoQ into teaching for 5-12 year olds, outside of vague, gesturing
statements like making high Quality decisions and the like. I think what
ZMM would tell you is that to be a good teacher, you have to care.
Matt
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