From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 05 2003 - 03:06:02 GMT
Rudy,
Yes, yes, yes. Excellent, all excellent. I love your insights. To hear
someone else say them is so refreshing, it means I'm not living in the cave
of my own mind.
I LOVE the "Temple of Pirsig Philosophology." Just wonderful.
In particular, your summation of the academic scene, comparing Rorty and
Pirsig, is exactly what the doctor ordered. I think we are the keeping
grounds, just as German literature was the discipline that held Nietzsche
until Heidegger came along and made it OK for him to be considered a
philosopher. Someday nobody in Philosophy Departments will get uptight
about calling Pirsig a philosopher. That's part of Rorty's main project,
getting us to see Plato, Milton, Nietzsche, Emerson, Kuhn, and Pirsig as
all philosophers, all trying to see how "things, in the broadest possible
sense of the term, hang together, in the broadest possible sense of the term."
Good stuff. Though my own private project is, as you would call it, full
of abstractions, I wish you luck on your private project of finding
something more "feelings-conscious." I think of all of this as adding to
our own private projects. Though I may not float your boat, there may be
others on here who do. If not, oh well. Its all about the search and
stumbling into other things that catch your imagination. Certainly don't
feel obligied to do or read any of the things we do.
Matt
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