Re: MD Pirsig the postmodernist?

From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 04:47:46 GMT

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    Scott,

    I certainly don't want to claim that I know a lot about mysticism or
    Eastern religions or anything. There are some many variants of all these
    things, philosophies or religions, that I don't think any of us can help
    but stick our foot in our mouths when we generalize. However, I do think
    it is pretty clear that you are begging the question when you say that,
    "you need essences (concepts) to even state a nominalist position." And,
    as I've been quite honest in saying, I beg the question in return by
    thinking that the appearance/reality distinction is "philosophically, a red
    herring." And its not dogmatism as long as we keep reading and learning
    about these other, question-begging systems and cultures.

    Matt

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