Re: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 21:11:26 GMT

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    Hi Johnny:

    > No, I was saying other people have value in coming to a conclusion about
    > what is true, that one person's own idea about what is true isn't good
    > enough. After all, you brought up the Emperor, didn't he believe he was
    > truly wearing new clothes? If he valued other people properly, he would
    > have found out that what he believed was true was not true.

    The Emperor valued other people's opinion so much he couldn't believe
    the truth of his own eyes. In other words, he depended on what others
    said to determine truth, just as postmodernists suggest. Read the story
    at:

    http://hca.gilead.org.il/emperor.html

    Platt

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