From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 14:28:43 GMT
Hi Steve, Paul, All:
Steve:
> You might find the following essay on art and criticism by Ken Wilber
> interesting:
>
> http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/misc/tosewo.cfm/
Thanks for the reference. Tangential to the subject of musical excellence
I hope readers took notice of what Wilber said about postmodernism:
"But the postmodern integralaperspective is not without its own major
aberration, known generally as 'aperspectival madness,' the insane view
that no view is better than any other . . . a confusion that results in
complete paralysis of will, thought and action. Madness it is indeed: it
claims no view is better than another, except its own view, which is
superior in a world where nothing supposed to be superior at all. And
worse: if no view is better than another, then the Nazis and the KKK are
on the same moral footing as, say, art critics."
Joining many others who have noted the demise of postmodernism among
intellectuals in academe, Wilber wrote:
" . . . the postmodern itself is on a morbid death watch . . . the skull
of postmodernity grins on the near horizon, and in the meantime, we are
between two worldviews, one slowly dying, one not yet born."
I agree with Paul that the next worldview, based on the MOQ, will be a new
movement called "valuism." Before it can take hold, however, a lot of
philosophical dead wood, from Kant through Fish and Rorty, will have to be
swept away.
Platt
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