Re: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 26 2003 - 19:29:56 GMT

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    a related thought...
    Jonathan Edwards brought idealism and pragmatism together with the statement
    that "things are as they appear to be." This is both a reassuring
    affirmation of reality absolutely existing and not being some sort of
    illusion or indeterminancy ("things _are_ as they appear"), and also at the
    same time it is an explainion of how things exist ("_as they appear to be_,
    things are").

    >Jon,
    >
    > > I believe what
    > > Matt is saying is that both Pirsig and postmodernism
    > > say that certain aspects
    > > of reality are indefinable.
    >
    >What I'm saying goes beyond this - my view on Pirsig's
    >application regarding postmodernism is that he deals
    >with how to live, or moreover, how to think, within a
    >world where indeterminacy has recently been shown to
    >strike blows for the big universal concepts that have
    >dominated our lives, and our thinking, up until the
    >middle of the 20th century. You can deny that
    >absolute morals exist (a simplistic example of
    >postmodernity), but you can't deny that there exist
    >certain patterns of value that favour certain moral
    >configurations (Pirsig) - hence Pirsig helps forge a
    >new 'thought' that allows one to cope better with
    >indeterminacy than SOM.
    >
    >Matt
    >
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