From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 22:33:47 GMT
Hi,
DMB says,
"It seems to me that Rorty is saying that the last 25 hundred years of
Western Philosophy ought to be ejected. This strikes me as just about the
most extraordinary claim I've ever heard and so to persuade me of its truth
would take extraordinary evidence."
Andy says,
Yes, this does seem an extraordinary claim, but it is only an extension of
the thoughts begun by many other philosophers over the past century [Dewey,
James, Wittgenstein, Kuhn, etc.).... Should I have also included Pirsig in
this list of philosophers?
Sam says: the idea that the last 25 hundred years of philosophy should be
rejected did indeed become quite common through the twentieth century,
stemming from Nietzche and Kierkegaard, through the pragmatists and
Wittgenstein to Rorty, and through the postmodernists to Derrida. Pirsig
says pretty much the same thing in ZMM, which is surely one of the best
things about it. But then - people disagree on how to interpret Pirsig...
:o)
Sam
"I am not altogether on anybody's side, because nobody is altogether on my
side, if you understand me... And there are some things, of course, whose
side I'm altogether not on; I am against them altogether." -- Treebeard
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