From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 18:30:01 GMT
Platt,
Platt said:
Descartes sought and found a place where he could put his foot down and
say, "Regardless of the context, practicality or belief of the group, this I
know to be true." In effect he said, "The buck stops here." Compare this
to postmodern philosophy where there are no footholds on the slippery
slopes of text, utility and fashion.
Matt:
Indeed, the above summation of Descartes' project is pretty good. It is
something I think Pirsig is quite ambivalent about following in.
Regardless, though, the pragmatist line I've been developing doesn't say
that their are no footholds. It says that the only footholds we have are
our contingent pasts, our current context, our current static patterns. We
are not floating free in space, we are climbing up ladders and then
discarding them when we don't need them anymore, we are jumping from island
to island, we are trying to find that next static latch.
Matt
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