From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Sun Aug 17 2003 - 22:01:48 BST
Platt,
I don't see why that invalidates my suggestion that Pirsig is a pragmatist.
James and Phaedrus were both (and most of us would be I guess) equally
horrified at anything that might justify Nazism.
James and Dewey et al didn't have Pirigs MoQ framework with which to
evaluate the quality of value judgements.
Pirsig is a pragmatist who's invented a useful tool.
Ian.
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[mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of Platt Holden
Sent: 17 August 2003 21:18
To: moq_discuss@moq.org
Subject: RE: MD A metaphysics - Bootstrapping
Ian,
> I actually don't buy the "we must define and agree our terms before we
> can have a valid (but long) dialectical argument" bit. That is actually
> the Catch-22 from which I wish to free us. (And incidentally the one
> from which I thought the pragmatist Pirsig had freed us.)
The "pragmatist Pirsig?" I don't think so. From Lila, Chap. 29:
"James would probably have been horrified to find that Nazis could use
his pragmatism just as freely as anyone else, but Phaedrus didn't see
anything that would prevent it."
Regards,
Platt
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