Re: MD What makes an idea dangerous?

From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 02 2003 - 20:53:39 GMT

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DMB said:
Only people like Platt and dmb think Rorty and Pirsig are incompatible? How about Rorty? Rorty himself said they were not on the same wavelength! As i see it, one has to rip the heart out of the MOQ to get it to look like Rorty.

Matt:
Before Rorty, people thought Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Dewey and Derrida and Davidson were all on different wavelengths. Not as much anymore. To be on a different wavelength, in my mind, is not to say anything about incompatabiility, but about the vocabulary in use. Rorty speaks analytic, Pirsig speaks mystic.

Besides, why should we take Rorty (or Pirsig's) word for it? Aren't we here to think for ourselves? Isn't it possible that these great geniuses might be wrong about some things?

Matt

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