From: Elizaphanian (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 11:40:02 GMT
Matt,
Marvellous stuff. "The difficulty is to realise the groundlessness of our
believing." (Wittgenstein, On Certainty, 166)
I'm going to think about the question whether Pirsig is 'post-post-modern'.
I suspect that he isn't for two reasons. One is his conception of the
intellect, which seems profoundly Platonist. The second is that - although
this has been debated - as I read him he makes truth one species of value,
and that we therefore judge 'reason' and 'truth' by how much value or
quality they have. So he seems, when he is in that mode of expression, to be
simply post-modernist. Or just sensible, however you want to describe it. Of
course, at other times he just seems modernist, but that's another argument.
Carry on :o)
Sam
> Reason and truth become compliments we pay to sentences we
> like and find useful. They have a function, but it is not the function
> Plato and Kant thought they had.
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