From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 13 2003 - 00:47:06 GMT
Sam,
Sam said:
Have you given any consideration to the mode of presentation in Lila; that
is, that Phaedrus is one voice within a larger scheme? Is there any way in
which this presentation, both of Phaedrus' ideas and of Phaedrus as a
(somewhat deficient) individual is Pirsig's means of subtly undercutting the
status of metaphysics?
Matt:
Yeah, kinda' like it might be possible that the use of Socrates undercuts
any Platonic attempt to hypostatize. The subtle undercuttings is in
particular how I read Pirsig when he says Phaedrus is a "mild-mannered
hyperintellectual." But even with subtle undercuts, it is hard to keep a
straight face and say, "Pirsig has zero tensions between a
post-metaphysical pragmatist pose and a Platonic, metaphysical pose."
Scott and Platt want to argue that metaphysics is just another name for
philosophy, thus possibly making some of these tensions disappear, but I
still hold out for keeping them seperate and I still think that even in
this reading many of the tensions remain.
Matt
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