From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 11 2003 - 04:39:52 GMT
DMB asked, "Why combine a mystical metaphysics with Rorty's
anti-metaphysical ideas?"
Matt:
If I remember correctly, Pirsig says that mysticism and metaphysics are
paradoxical when put together. That's why he takes it as an interesting
angle to take. Pirsig is colligating two strange and unrelated texts,
which Rorty calls a paradigm of imagination. (from "Inquiry as
Recontextualization") Well, since both logical postivism and mysticism get
rid of metaphysics, why not try cleaning up logical postivism and hook it
up to mysticism and see what happens? I think something does happen and I
see Pirsig as my hook.
In my interpretations of Pirsig, I'm trying to explore some things that
Pirsig doesn't and I don't see why I shouldn't. Pirsig was being
imaginative, why can't I? Of course, I don't think I'm being that
imaginative, but everytime people cry out, "How can you put Pirsig and
Rorty together?!?" it makes me look a lot more creative then I actually am
to people who are being convinced by my colligation. So, let me reiterate:
I don't think I'm being that crazy in putting Pirsig and Rorty together. I
think Rorty is simply helpful in putting some things about Pirsig in a
different context that help me understand what I like and dislike about him.
Matt
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