From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Thu May 29 2003 - 02:47:52 BST
>
>Yes. I see contingency -- or maybe radical contingency -- as what is meant
>by the Buddhist phrase 'pratitya-samutpada', usually translated as
>"dependent co-origination". This means that nothing is what it is except in
>terms of how it relates to everything else. It lacks "self-existence". The
>hard "thing" to understand in this way, of course, is "myself".
>
do you think this relates to the previous discussions about other species and
subjective, higher levels?
>> I ask because Rorty and other pomos appear to hang their entire
>> metaphysics on that one word (while denying they have a metaphysics of
>> course).
>
>My "metaphsyics" also pretty much hangs on this one word, with the real
>difference between Rorty and me, as I see it, being that I consider the
>statement "everything is contingent" to be a metaphysical Truth, that it can
>be realized (mystically). {Note: that statement also uses a particular
>meaning of "everything": as "every thing (or event, or whatever that can be
>observed, thought about, etc.), so the escape-that-can-be-another-trap is
>the word "emptiness" or "nothingness": sunyata.}
>
>- Scott
>>
This reminds me of something I read the other day.
Is Pirsig Jewish, we can change it to six :-)
So whats the difference between "everything is contingent" and "everything is
relative"
It seems like Platt wants Moses/Pirsig and your arguing Einstein /Pirsig, no?
Five Jewish men influenced the history of Western civilization.
Moses said the law is everything.
Jesus said love is everything.
Marx said capital is everything.
Freud said sex is everything.
Einstein said everything is relative
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