From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 15:09:04 GMT
Hi Ham,
> Is a New Ager -- or (pardon me), a "post-modernist" -- compelled to put
> down any idea that was developed prior the 20th century?
Me, a postmodernist? A postmodernist says, "It's a fact there are no
facts." Such nonsense up with which I will not put.
There are hundreds of great ideas developed prior to the 20th century.
Idealism doesn't happen to be one of them.
> While you may
> consider it old-fashioned and unsophisticated, I am not at all offended by
> the Idealism label. In fact, I like to think that Essentialism has the
> potential to reawaken idealism in our nihilistic age. As for those
> cardinals in your back yard, we have them, too. Where do you suppose those
> little red birds would be if you and I and no one else had ever noticed
> them?
I ask you, "Do you suppose they would cease to be, that they would
literally vanish from the face of the earth?"
> In the Pirsigian view (SODV), this avarian species would be part of
> "The Conceptually Unknown" which, having no value for man, would not be
> experienced, hence would not exist. Or, have I misread the Master?
Yes, you have misread the Master. The "Conceptually Unknown" is of great
value for man because it motivates his quest for knowledge. It is indeed
experienced because experience in its purest form is pre-conceptual.
Every time I face a blank canvas in my painting, I face the "Conceptually
Unknown."
Regards,
Platt
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