From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jul 12 2003 - 01:14:58 BST
Matt,
Platt
> So when you claim that our patterns of value are contingent (dependent)on
> our place in history, it appears you're assuming a empirical threshold
> stance outside of history which, by your own claim, you're not supposed to
> do.
>
> Matt:
> I don't catch the paradox. I'm pretty sure part of my empirical threshold
> is my experience of my place in history. As far as I can see, as I think
> Johnny would say, it is a truism to say that our patterns of value are
> contingent on our place in history. I didn't go anywhere, I just looked
> around, looked at a few history books, noted some dissimilarities, made the
> contingent turn, and said, "Hey, I'm rooted in my history, my analogies
> built on analogies."
The paradox is one I've pointed out several times in our previous
exchanges. Your claim of being rooted exclusively in a particular history
is presented as being true throughout history, thus denying that you are
entirely rooted exclusively in a particular history. It's just another
take on the paradox of your expressing eternal truths such as "we're all
rooted in history" when your postmodern philosophy claims there's no such
thing as eternal truths.
I know you pay little attention to paradoxes because rationality is not a
particularly important criteria in Rorty's worldview. For me, and I think
for Pirsig, logical consistency is still right up there as a measure of
intellectual quality.
Platt
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