From: platootje@netscape.net
Date: Tue Jul 26 2005 - 09:10:11 BST
Ham wrote:
>As you will learn from the philosophologers, one of the biggest challenges
>Philosophy has historically faced is: how to reduce Cartesian Duality to a
>monism. (I've covered this in the introduction of my thesis.) Pirsig
>thinks he's
>achieved this by basing all things experienced on a common esthetic
>attribute -- Quality.
I would like to start with the duality introduced by Aristolian Logic:
If X is true then not-X is false.
I know I can argue my way into a monism from there, so that's what you may expect from me.
>In other words, no pain exists from sitting
>on a hot stove in the absence of either the stove or the sitter. No
>knowledge of reality -- physical or otherwise -- exists without a cognizant
>experencing subject. There's your "duality", Reinier.
No, that's not 'my' duality.
>I have posited Essence as Ultimate Reality. Essence is not Being nor an
>existential attribute of a differentiated subject or object. It is the
>fundamental nature of all phenomena, including thoughts, feelings, and
>experiences. It is the "not-other" from which all otherness is derived.
>There are no attributes accessible to the finite mind that we can assign to
>Essence, except for its absolute Oneness.
And that's so close to what I have in mind, I still wonder if our differences are mere semantic, or if there is something fundamental.....
>It's clear to me that this concept is untenable to the MoQ loyalists who
>feel that by parsing all experienced phenomena into patterns, levels, and
>latching points of Quality they've solved the riddle. What they've actually
>done is constructed a "semiotic" reality with no more meaning or insight
>than the dualism professed by Descartes, and far less substance.
>
>So, roll up your sleeves, Reinier and give it your best. Hopefully, what
>you come up with will be have a more logical foundation than the esthetic
>semiosis proposed by the MoQ.
>
Thanks for the encouragement. Although I see it as a advantage that I'm not burdened by a lot of philosophology, this may be a disadvantage in getting my ideas across. The simple and the obvious get overlooked easily.
Kind regards,
Reinier.
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