From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Mon Oct 20 2003 - 22:00:28 BST
Quality as the sum of static and dynamic qualities, of course. Dynamical
quality must be leading, and forms perhaps a large part of the Quality
Act (so to say) in the making of a choice. E.g. deciding a new project
for your work, a subject for a next paper to write, or which job you
want to apply for. Once you have distilled a good static quality
foundation to build upon, you're tempted to stick to this original
static quality when you're working it out. Too much DQ in this process
of 'working out' might undo or deconstruct your project. On the other
hand there is the danger that you create an Ivory tower and shield
effectively all dynamic quality out of it.
Very much abstract talk... Maybe that's what Rorty doesn't find
interesting or even worthwile in philosophy anymore, philosophy as the
process of a continual refreshion of old abstract conceptions only to
see these same conceptions anew again and again. Anyhow this abstract
thinking might be worthwile after all, to me, if the fruit of DQ has
brought forward a Good static quality, if after and before that more
pragmatic action is being pursued. Balance (between thinking and action,
between relativism and absolutism) is what it's all about. (Note to
Rorty-defenders and Rorty-attackers here, I'm just talking out loud in
my own way and do not pretend to represent in any way what Rorty stands
or does not stand for).
Greetings, Patrick.
Hi Patrick,
You indicate two aspects here i feel: 1. A balance between SQ and SQ, and 2.
A relationship between DQ and coherence. The first may describe how, when and
where DQ operates, and the second may describe the evolution of one's life
experience.
This being so, Rorty may be encapsulated in this formula. I do not discount
the possibility that this formula may be encapsulated by Rorty, but as Rorty
does not use a value lead metaphysical framework, i should need a great deal of
convincing before valuing it.
Mark
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