From: Richard Loggins (brloggins@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 13:49:18 BST
Steve,
Yes, Steve. If you're a true philosopher, you take a stance about your assumptions about the world. If you don't, then you're not interested in philosophy and should pursue something else. I have plenty of freinds who don't give a flying penguin about philosophy and think it's a waste of time. Fine. But the neo=pragmatists are not content to let it go at that and, pace Matt and Rorty, sit on the sidelines tossing tomatoes. If the neo=pragmatists believe in anything, it is texts, and texts of texts, and texts of texts of texts, all the way down. Or maybe not. Just try to pin them on this. They will squiggle out. But what is important (to them) is to emphaize the futility of making distinctions between texts (rhetoric) and reality. So they say. If there's something tricky about the world that can't be agreed upon, the neo-progmatists raise their hand and state their desire for this direction of inquiry to be dropped. Over and over ad nauseum. There is a sincere interest in coping
strategies, but this is better fulfilled by being a politician or social scientist. But please let the real philosopher be.
Rich
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