From: skutvik@online.no
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 09:57:29 GMT
Matt and David M.
Somewhat belated this, but on 1 Nov. Matt wrote:
> I'm glad to see somebody else agreeing with me that Rorty and Pirsig
> are compatible, but I think it kind of funny that Bo thinks I would
> "refuse any agreement with Pirsig."
This was merely me believing that you saw Rorty as seeing deeper
than Pirsig. The Galileo example however made me suspect that you
fall wasn't from the MOQ, but from a distorted one. You may be
ordained again ;-).
> Bo, I've never hinted at anything of the kind. To read my posts as
> grand condemnations and repudiations of everything Pirsig stands for
> is to not really read them. The only people who would tell you
> otherwise about Pirsig and Rorty are people like Platt and DMB, not
> me.
About misreading your posts, I must confess that I stopped reading
them long ago but your presentation of the Galileo case suddenly
caught my eye and I found it fully compatible with the MOQ. So if you
maintain that it (the Galileo example) carries the essence of your view
...of the MOQ ...I am happy
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For David M
who wrote in the same thread (the 1st. of Nov.):
> Of course Matt loves his Mr Pirsig, why else is he here,
> he also loves his Mr Rorty too, and why some people think
> this is impossible I have yet to see the poorest argument for,
> except the endless mis-representation of everything pragmatist.
> Such is life.
See above re. Matt. About the 'pragmatist' part I have never
understood the philosophical content of that approach ....or of the
term itself - the most lofty idea will have an impact on (practical)
everything if GOOD.
> I have read Pirsig and Rorty and can see lots of similar, and some
> disagreement, anyone interested in checking this similarity out for
> themselves should go and read Rorty. If they are not interested then
> don't. If they think they are incompatible but have not read Rorty,
> they should take a look in the mirror and wonder why they are doing
> this when they have not read Rorty's 4/5 main works. Shame on you!
OK I haven't read this and I haven't read that, people refer to
Protagoras, Plato, Aristotles, Kant and whonot, but how many have
read their works?
Bo
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