From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 13:41:31 BST
Phyllis-
> Second, I will encourage everyone to read philosophers (not the
> philosophologists) - very readable ones too.
As I said, some modern philosophers Like Pirsig take pains to write
readable text. In addition to Louis Pojman I would include include Ken
Wilber, Roger Kimball, David Stove, Ayn Rand, Roger Scruton and
many more. As for philosophologists like Will Durant, Mortimer Adler,
Reuben Abel and others, they're not all bad. In fact, some do us a real
favor by saving us time and trouble in trying to decipher what the old
boys meant. Of course, not all philosophologists are good either.
> Platt - not all colleges and universities, even state schools,
> have succumbed to the relativist bandwagon.
Thanks for the reminder that absolute statements often need to be
qualified. There are exceptions, like "All men are mortal" and other such
"axioms," or, as Paul might point out, "tautologies."
> Third, (I did mention Pirsig) I would contend that the dynamic is the
> (metaphorical) realm where absolute morals reside, before they are
> assimilated into static social patterns or argued over by intellectual
> ones.
Nice idea. That's an "absolute" I hadn't thought of before. But now that
you mention it, it makes a lot of sense. IMO this is the sort of
"expansion" of the MoQ that Pirsig encourages.
Platt
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