From: Matt Kundert (pirsigaffliction@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 18:40:16 GMT
Wolff,
Matt said:
Both Paul and Wolff seem to suggest that I’ve stopped thinking. But where is
the evidence for that?
Wolff said:
May I ask how I "seem to suggest" this?
Matt:
Part of the dangers of "speaking off the top of your head" and "in general"
is accusation-by-implicature. Your general discourse in relation to me has
been, as I understand it, one of disagreement. As such, when you start
forwarding such (normally innocuous) theses as "For
one to develop her own philosophy, it requires an ability to 'Think'"
combined with "you can learn a lot from these masters of philosophy, but
these masters of philosophy do not 'Teach' philosophy, any more than they
were taught philosophy. For them to become great masters, they had to
'Learn' their philosophy; they had to think on their own terms," the
implication is that I'm not developing my own philosophy, nor thinking, but
more like parroting the masters.
So I am in a lot of ways. But I doubt I'm not thinking, nor do I doubt the
validity, energy, or Quality of any of things I've been saying. A personal
idiom does not ipso facto mean you are doing Quality work. Its more
complicated than that as I think the history of philosophy (as the history
of these very geniuses in question) brings out.
Matt
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